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1. Greening America's Smaller Legacy Cities

   Resúmenes de políticas públicas
   Abril 2024
   By Joseph Schilling, Catherine Tumber, and Gabi Velasco

   Because urban centers generate most of the planet’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, cities often lead in implementing “green” initiatives to conserve resources, ensure clean air and...

2. Rethinking the Property Tax-School Funding Dilemma

   Resúmenes de políticas públicas
   Febrero 2023
   By Daphne A. Kenyon, Bethany Paquin, and Andrew Reschovsky

   This policy brief focuses on the roles of the local property tax and state aid in the funding of public education and analyzes their strengths and weaknesses. A key theme is the property tax–...

3. Equitably Developing America's Smaller Legacy Cities

   Investing in Residents from South Bend to Worcester
   Resúmenes de políticas públicas
   Mayo 2021
   Erica Spaid Patras, Alison Goebel, and Lindsey Elam

   Former industrial and manufacturing hubs like Dayton, Ohio, and Gary, Indiana—known as legacy cities—need not choose between economic growth and equity, as growth is most durable when it...

4. Megaregions and America's Future

   Libros
   Marzo 2022
   Robert D. Yaro, Ming Zhang, and Frederick R. Steiner

   “[This] visionary book provides a high-level map that charts a path through a set of daunting challenges, imagining step-by-step the choreography of reconfiguring, and thereby renewing, the...

5. The Empty House Next Door

   Understanding and Reducing Vacancy and Hypervacancy in the United States
   Resúmenes de políticas públicas
   Agosto 2020
   Alan Mallach

   Vacant and abandoned properties are a familiar part of the American landscape that can devastate entire neighborhoods, diminishing the value of nearby properties. More extreme cases may cause severe...

6. Antiguas ciudades industriales

   Construir un renacimiento equitativo
   Resúmenes de políticas públicas
   Mayo 2020
   Jessie Grogan

   Las antiguas ciudades industriales, que alguna vez impulsaron la industria y la prosperidad, perdieron millones de residentes y empleos en el s. XX debido a la economía cambiante. Con...

7. America’s Legacy Cities

   Building an Equitable Renaissance
   Resúmenes de políticas públicas
   Marzo 2020
   Jessie Grogan

   Legacy cities have been at the center of some of America’s most historic achievements, and they possess a strong civic spirit and culture of innovation at a time when these qualities are most...

8. Viviendas inclusivas

   Crear y mantener comunidades igualitarias
   Resúmenes de políticas públicas
   Febrero 2020
   Rick Jacobus

   Las políticas de viviendas inclusivas requieren que los desarrolladores de nuevos inmuebles a precio de mercado ofrezcan viviendas asequibles, a fin de evitar el desplazamiento de residentes...

9. Inclusionary Housing

   Creating and Maintaining Equitable Communities
   Resúmenes de políticas públicas
   Diciembre 2019
   Rick Jacobus

   Inclusionary housing policies require developers of new market-rate real estate to provide affordable housing, to prevent displacing lower-income residents. In this Policy Brief, Rick Jacobus, a...

10. Property Taxation and Local Government Finance

    Libros
    Septiembre 2001
    Edited by Wallace E. Oates

    The property tax is unpopular among both scholars and taxpayers, yet many scholars have proposed ideas to rehabilitate this tax and its role in local public finance. Based on a 2000 Lincoln Institute...