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Greening America's Smaller Legacy Cities
Resúmenes de políticas públicasAbril 2024By Joseph Schilling, Catherine Tumber, and Gabi VelascoBecause 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...
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Rethinking the Property Tax-School Funding Dilemma
Resúmenes de políticas públicasFebrero 2023This 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–...
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From State Capitols to City Halls
Smarter State Policies for Stronger CitiesResúmenes de políticas públicasDiciembre 2022By Alan MallachStates matter. What happens in state government can make or break a city’s efforts to revitalize, yet this is frequently overlooked when it comes to a municipality’s economic, physical,...
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Integrating Land Use and Water Management
Resúmenes de políticas públicasAgosto 2022By Erin RuglandLand without water cannot support urban form of any scale, yet many land use decisions are made without regard to water, and vice versa. This Policy Brief introduces readers to best management...
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Property Tax Relief for Homeowners
Resúmenes de políticas públicasMarzo 2022Property Tax Relief for Homeowners offers a guide to providing effective, targeted property tax relief without compromising municipal fiscal health or services.
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Equitably Developing America's Smaller Legacy Cities
Investing in Residents from South Bend to WorcesterResúmenes de políticas públicasMayo 2021Erica Spaid Patras, Alison Goebel, and Lindsey ElamFormer 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...
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Duty to Serve
Early Lessons Learned in Underserved Housing MarketsResúmenes de políticas públicasAbril 2021By Jim Gray and George W. McCarthyEnacted in the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 and launched in 2017, Duty to Serve (DTS) is a federal regulation that requires Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to provide affordable housing...
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The Empty House Next Door
Understanding and Reducing Vacancy and Hypervacancy in the United StatesResúmenes de políticas públicasAgosto 2020Alan MallachVacant 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...
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Exploratory Scenario Planning
How to Navigate an Uncertain FutureResúmenes de políticas públicasAgosto 2020Jeremy StapletonAs uncertainty about the future grows, communities face new challenges—including rapid urban development, mass migration, pandemics, technological advancement, and climate change—at an...
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Antiguas ciudades industriales
Construir un renacimiento equitativoResúmenes de políticas públicasMayo 2020Las 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...
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