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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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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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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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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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America’s Legacy Cities
Building an Equitable RenaissanceResúmenes de políticas públicasMarzo 2020Legacy 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...
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Viviendas inclusivas
Crear y mantener comunidades igualitariasResúmenes de políticas públicasFebrero 2020Rick JacobusLas 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...
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Inclusionary Housing
Creating and Maintaining Equitable CommunitiesResúmenes de políticas públicasDiciembre 2019Rick JacobusInclusionary 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...
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The Future of America’s Middle Neighborhoods
Setting the Stage for RevivalResúmenes de políticas públicasNoviembre 2018Often overlooked, middle neighborhoods matter—both to the people who live in them and to their cities and regions—and solutions demand engagement not only from the neighborhood itself but also from the city, region, and state.