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1. How Homestead Exemptions Can Counteract Regressivity in Property Tax Assessments

   Documentos de trabajo
   Marzo 2024
   Ron Rakow, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

   Evidence presented in several recent academic studies using national datasets indicates widespread regressivity in property tax assessments. This can be due to statutory limits on assessment levels...

2. From the House to the Ground: Insights Into the Challenges of Implementing State Housing Policies

   Otro
   Septiembre 2023
   Jenny Schuetz, Julia Gill, Semida Munteanu, and Sydney Zelinka

   As housing affordability concerns increase, state legislatures are increasingly intent on implementing reform. New insights from a workshop held by the Lincoln Institute and Brookings Metro offer a look at the challenges and opportunities along the way.

3. “Mayor’s Desk” Book Highlights Crucial Work of Local Government Leaders

   Revista Land Lines
   Noviembre 2023
   By Kristina McGeehan, November 7, 2023

   20 innovative leaders from five continents share their struggles and successes, along with strategies for making cities more equitable, sustainable, and healthy places to live and work.

4. State Housing Policy Workshop

   Eventos
   Abril 13, 2023

   This workshop is designed to help state officials learn how to effectively track and evaluate the outcomes of newly adopted state housing policies.

5. Successful Property Tax Reform: The Case of Massachusetts

   Educación a distancia
   Enero 26, 2022
   Faculty: Karl E. Case, Jane Malme, and Ronald Rakow

   This course examines the deep problems of the Massachusetts property tax in the 1970s and the subsequent reforms that created one of the most functional and fair systems in the United States.

6. Four New Projects Will Use Scenario Planning to Explore Housing Affordability

   Revista Land Lines
   Agosto 2023
   By Jon Gorey, August 10, 2023

   The Consortium for Scenario Planning has announced the winners of a recent RFP focused on housing affordability.

7. Who Owns America: The Geospatial Mapping Technology That Could Help Cities Beat Predatory Investors at Their Own Game

   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 2023
   By Jon Gorey, July 18, 2023

   Corporate investors have the upper hand in the housing market, but the Center for Geospatial Solutions is providing communities with the data they need to push back.

8. Can Removing Development Subsidies Promote Adaptation?

   The Coastal Barrier Resources System as a Natural Experiment
   Documentos de trabajo
   Mayo 2023
   Hannah Druckenmiller, Yanjun (Penny) Liao, Sophie Pesek, Margaret Walls, and Shan Zhang

   As natural disasters grow in frequency and intensity under climate change, limiting populations and properties in harm's way will be one important facet of adaptation. This study focuses on one...

9. Boston’s Beloved Triple-Deckers Are Next-Level Affordable Housing

   Revista Land Lines
   Mayo 2023
   By Anthony Flint, May 24, 2023

   Industrial cities of New England built thousands of these three-unit apartment buildings for immigrant families — until a backlash brought an end to the boom.

10. Nineteen ways to celebrate the historical events of Juneteenth in Boston and beyond

    Boston Globe
    Junio 9, 2023
    El Instituto Lincoln en las noticias