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1. Equity in Green Infrastructure

   Documentos de trabajo
   Enero 2024
   Nathaniel R. Mattison and Kyle McKenney

   Many municipalities introduced their first stand-alone green infrastructure (“GI”) plans in the late 2000s and early 2010s, specifically as a means of achieving compliance with water...

2. 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...

3. A Global Perspective on Land Use Regulations and Housing Outcomes

   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2022
   Cynthia Goytia and Eric J. Heikkila

   This 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...

4. The Effects of Payments for Environmental Services on Peri-Urban Land Change in Mexico City's Conservation Zone

   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2022
   Julia C. Bausch, Elizabeth Tellman, Alison Acosta-Oakes, Amy Lerner, Enrique Castelán-Crespo, and Bertha Hernández-Aguilar

   In many cities of the developing world, informal settlements are a key place for people with low incomes to access housing. Informal urbanization drives land-use change at the urban periphery:...

5. High-speed rail, market access improvement, and land market outcomes

   Evidence from China
   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 2021
   Zheng Chang

   China has the most extensive high-speed rail (HSR) network in the world. This study investigated how HSR impacted the land market in China from 2004 to 2016, including land prices, supply, and...

6. City of Copenhagen, Denmark

   Reestablishing Affordable Housing Post-Economic Recovery
   Documentos de trabajo
   Mayo 2021
   Hans Thor Andersen and Jesper Ole Jensen

   This study examines the development of the city of Copenhagen’s housing market in the late twentieth century and the subsequent boom and crisis after 2007. It covers the period from 1990 to the...

7. Development Tax in France as a Tool for Land Value Capture and Social Equity

   Case Studies on Bordeaux and Strasbourg
   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2021
   Sonia Guelton, Agnes Pouillaude, and David Rosen

   In a context of severe pressure on public budgets, aging urban infrastructure, and increasing pressures of urbanization, municipalities, and metropolitan regions on five continents are looking at...

8. Duty to Serve

   The Purpose of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and Early Lessons Learned in Underserved Housing Markets
   Documentos de trabajo
   Abril 2021
   By Jim Gray and George W. McCarthy

   Freddie Mac and, for even longer, Fannie Mae (collectively, “the Enterprises”) have played an essential role in the creation of the modern housing finance system in the United States. In...

9. Land Conversion and Misallocation Across Cities in China

   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2019
   Shihe Fu, Xiaocong Xu, and Junfu Zhang

   The Chinese government has been using quotas to control the amount of farmland that can be converted for urban uses in different cities every year. Using a sample of more than 1.5 million land-lease...

10. The Role of Micro-Entrepreneurship in Emerging Land Markets

    A Case Study of Rental Markets in Havana, Cuba
    Documentos de trabajo
    Mayo 2019
    Raúl Santiago-Bartolomei, Marlon G. Boarnet, Annette M. Kim, and Nicole E. Esparza

    The government of Cuba has recently allowed its citizens to buy, sell, and rent property as part of a broader set of reforms that foster land market liberalization and micro-entrepreneurship by way...