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1. Tax Battles

   Cities Seek Higher Payments in Lieu of Taxes from Nonprofits
   Revista Land Lines
   Marzo 2020
   By Liz Farmer, March 4, 2020

   At a recent rally in front of Baltimore City Hall, activists sang, chanted, and otherwise voiced their view that the city’s major nonprofit institutions weren’t “paying their fair share” of property...

2. Designing Land Value Capture Tools in the Context of Complex Tenurial and Deficient Land Use Regulatory Regimes in Accra, Ghana

   Documentos de trabajo
   Marzo 2019
   Samuel Banleman Biitir

   Rapid urbanization has increased the demand for urban infrastructure services. Municipalities have attempted to finance infrastructure services with value capture instruments. The paper highlights...

3. Rethinking Property Tax Incentives for Business

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Junio 2012
   Daphne A. Kenyon, Adam H. Langley, and Bethany P. Paquin

   State and local governments use many types of property tax incentives to increase business development. This report reviews those incentives, summarizes the literature regarding their effectiveness,...

4. Zoning Rules!

   The Economics of Land Use Regulation
   Libros
   Julio 2015
   William A. Fischel

   “Fischel . . . does for the housing debate what zoning once did for cities: brings order and coherence to what’s otherwise a mess.” — Ezra Klein, New York Times This best-...

5. The Decentralization of Governance in Metropolitan Areas

   Ponencias
   Abril 2013
   Roy W. Bahl

   The theory and practice of providing government services in metropolitan areas are subjects that have attracted a great deal of attention in the industrial countries but have been largely ignored in...

6. Why Tax Increment Financing Often Fails and How Communities Can Do Better

   Entradas de blog
   Septiembre 2018

7. The State of Local Government Pensions

   A Preliminary Inquiry
   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2012
   Tracy M. Gordon, Heather M. Rose, and Ilana Fischer

   State government pensions have attracted considerable media and scholarly attention. Less well understood are the nation’s 3,196 locally administered plans. This paper represents a first step toward...

8. Tax incentives for Amazon HQ2: when winners end up losers?

   Entradas de blog
   Agosto 2018

9. 2019 C. Lowell Harriss Dissertation Fellowship Program

   Graduate Student Fellowship
   Oportunidades de becas de posgrado
   Enero 2019

   The C. Lowell Harriss Dissertation Fellowship Program assists Ph.D. students, primarily at U.S. universities, whose research complements the Lincoln Institute's interests in land and tax policy.

10. Recently posted working papers

    Entradas de blog
    Octubre 2007