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A Global Perspective on Land Use Regulations and Housing Outcomes
Documentos de trabajoJunio 2022Cynthia Goytia and Eric J. HeikkilaThis paper examines the relationship between land use regulations and housing outcomes, especially housing affordability and informality. Using a unique and important database of 191 metropolitan...
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Community Land Trusts and Informal Settlements
Assessing the Feasibility of CLT Instruments Developed by the Caño Martin Peña Communities in Puerto Rico for Favelas in Rio de Janeiro, BrazilDocumentos de trabajoMayo 2021Line Algoed, Alejandro Cotté Morales, Tarcyla Fidalgo Ribeiro, María E. Hernández Torrales, Lyvia Rodríguez Del Valle, and Theresa WilliamsonThis report presents an analysis conducted to assess the feasibility of community land trusts (CLT) developed by the Caño Martin Peña communities in Puerto Rico as instruments to...
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Case Study: Post-Disaster Recovery of Public Housing in Galveston, Texas
An Opportunity for Whom?OtroOctubre 2019Jane Rongerude and Sara HamidehThis case study highlights post-disaster challenges and opportunities, encouraging readers to ask who benefits from recovery efforts and who bears the costs.
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Case Study: Fighting FEMA
Urban Informality and Disaster Response in Rio Grande Valley ColoniasOtroOctubre 2019Danielle Zoe RiveraThis case study examines the legal case LUPE, et al. v. FEMA, B:08-cv-487 [2008], which discusses the issue of informal housing repairs in post-disaster situations.
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Case Study: Bravery in the Face of Bureaucracy
The Negotiation and Completion of Minute 319OtroOctubre 2019Jennifer GimbelThis case reviews the negotiation process regarding the operations of the Colorado River system after it experienced the most severe drought in recorded history.
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Land Lines, Julio 2018
Revista Land LinesJulio 2018Coeditado por Ted Smalley Bowen y Maureen ClarkeEn este número: fideicomisos de suelo comunitarios en las favelas de Río, innovaciones en el tránsito de América Latina y ¿Puerto Rico puede reconstruir y ser más resistente?
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Housing Affordability in a Global Perspective
Documentos de trabajoNoviembre 2018Achilles Kallergis, Shlomo Angel, Yang Liu, Alejandro M. Blei, Nicolás Galarza, and Patrick Lamson-HallThis paper discusses housing affordability in cities the world over based on data from the Land and Housing Survey in a Global Sample of Cities. We report on the composition of the housing sector...
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Land Lines, July 2010
Revista Land LinesJulio 2010Edited by Ann LeRoyerThis issue provides various reflections on the U.S. foreclosure crisis of the mid-2000s; an analysis of housing reform and homeowner security in Buenos Aires, Argentina; and an overview of the...
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Land Lines, April 2009
Revista Land LinesAbril 2009Edited by Ann LeRoyerThis issue highlights the myriad challenges of redeveloping vacant and contaminated land in U.S. cities; the features, prevalence, and outcomes of city-imposed tax and expenditure limits; and an...
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Land Lines, July 2008
Revista Land LinesJulio 2008Edited by Ann LeRoyerThis issue looks at place-making strategies to combat poverty, unemployment, and other issues plaguing U.S. cities; the dynamics and effects of urban sprawl and possible remedies to overgrown...
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