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1. Q&A: Fellows in Focus

   Revista Land Lines
   Marzo 2024
   By Jon Gorey, March 15, 2024

   Lincoln Institute fellows discuss their recent work, their research interests, and the things that keep them up at night

2. Comparing Property Tax Disparities in America’s Largest Cities

   Revista Land Lines
   Agosto 2023
   By Kristina McGeehan, August 16, 2023

   Produced annually, the comprehensive 50-state report provides the most meaningful data available to compare property taxes among cities by calculating the effective tax rate: the tax bill as a percentage of a property’s market value.

3. Green Infrastructure, Home Values, Land Value Capture, and Equitable Property Assessment

   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2023
   Jeffrey P. Cohen, Michael Dietz, and Yuchen Huang

   Climate change has necessitated innovative approaches to financing storm water mitigation in coastal communities throughout the world. We study how adding bioswales near residential properties in New...

4. 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...

5. How Property Tax Limits Shift Burdens to New Home Buyers

   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 2022
   By Will Jason, July 13, 2022.

   Produced annually. the 50-State Property Tax Comparison Study provides the nation’s most comprehensive analysis of local property tax rates by calculating the effective tax rate—the tax paid as a percentage of market value—for 74 large U.S. cities and a r

6. New Report: Taxing Land More Than Buildings Would Help Detroit Homeowners and Spur Development

   Revista Land Lines
   Abril 2022
   By Will Jason, April 4, 2022

   Reforming Detroit’s property tax system by taxing land at a higher rate than buildings would help to revive the local economy and reduce tax bills for nearly every homeowner, according to a new study from the nonprofit Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

7. Measuring the Fiscal Health of U.S. Cities

   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2020
   Howard Chernick and Andrew Reschovsky

   This paper uses a specially constructed data base on city finance that accounts for the revenues and spending of the constituent governments that provide public services in cities—municipal...

8. 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...

9. 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...

10. Residential Property Taxation in New York City

    Documentos de trabajo
    Abril 2019
    Moses Gates

    This working paper sets forth the recent history and current structure of New York City’s residential property tax system, as well as large-scale inequities, possible points of needed reform,...