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1. New Tool Measures Vertical Equity in Property Tax Assessments

   Revista Land Lines
   Diciembre 2023
   By Jon Gorey, December 15, 2023

   The online tool provides a free resource for evaluating and interpreting assessment equity in several ways

2. Assessment of Property Tax Reductions on Tax Delinquency, Tax Foreclosure, and Home Ownership

   Documentos de trabajo
   Enero 2021
   Fernanda Alfaro, Dusan Paredes, and Mark Skidmore

   In this report, we provide an evaluation of the impacts in Detroit of reductions in residential effective tax rates on tax delinquency, property tax foreclosure, and homeownership. The decline in...

3. Property Tax Delinquency in the United States

   Documentos de trabajo
   Marzo 2020
   Jenna DeAngelo

   How does a municipality create a property tax enforcement system that is revenue maximizing (property tax collection is as close to 100 percent as possible) but also fair (homeowners are able to...

4. The Valuation of Federally Subsidized Housing

   Ten Questions for the Property Tax
   Documentos de trabajo
   Febrero 2011
   Joan M. Youngman

   The complex federal incentives for private investment in low- and moderate-income housing have produced decades of judicial decisions on the appropriate local tax treatment of these properties. This...

5. Estimates of the Total Cost and Distribution of Tax Relief Under State Funded Property Tax Circuit Breakers

   Documentos de trabajo
   Marzo 2009
   Adam H. Langley

   This paper uses data from the 2006 American Community Survey to estimate the cost for state governments to fund three hypothetical property tax circuit breaker programs and a homestead exemption. The...

6. Property Taxation and Residential Density

   Theory and Empirics
   Documentos de trabajo
   Diciembre 2008
   Richard W. England and Ju-Chin Huang

   In this paper, we first theorize about the size of a house constructed on a residential lot, measured by height and footprint area. We hypothesize that the property tax rate will have a negative...

7. The Effect of Property Taxes on Location Decisions

   Evidence From the Market for Second Homes
   Documentos de trabajo
   Mayo 2008
   Erik Johnson and Randall Walsh

   While there exists a large empirical literature on the capitalization of property taxes into home prices, very little work has been done to identify the effect of differences in property taxes on...

8. Detroit and the Property Tax

   Strategies to Improve Equity and Enhance Revenue
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Noviembre 2015
   Gary Sands and Mark Skidmore

   This report outlines the problems underlying the erosion of Detroit's property tax base—a factor that contributed to the city's bankruptcy in 2013. It offers recommendations for reform...

9. 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-...

10. Detroit Property Tax Delinquency

    Social Contract in Crisis
    Documentos de trabajo
    Octubre 2014
    James Alm, Timothy R. Hodge, Gary Sands, and Mark Skidmore

    As the country reemerges from the real estate crisis, the City of Detroit, Michigan continues to struggle, and is currently in the midst of bankruptcy proceedings. Falling property values have led to...