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1. 2024 Fundamentals of Municipal Finance Credential

   Cursos
   Mayo 13, 2024

   This four-day professional credential program provides a thorough foundation in municipal finance with a focus on urban planning and economic development in the United States.

2. 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.

3. Transitioning Out of Capped Property Assessments

   The Value Recapture Approach
   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 2023
   Carmela Quintos

   Assessment caps lead to inequities because the same growth limit is applied to high and low growth properties. For high growth properties that fall under the cap, the assessments are artificially...

4. 2023 Fundamentals of Municipal Finance Credential

   Cursos
   Mayo 8, 2023

   The Lincoln Institute and the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy are offering a five-day online course on the fundamentals of municipal finance for urban planners and others, May 8–12, 2023.

5. 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...

6. Hospitals in R.I. have tenants that are not exempt from real estate taxes. Lawmakers say it’s time for them to pay.

   Boston Globe
   Mayo 24, 2023
   El Instituto Lincoln en las noticias

7. Should the Proposition 2½ tax limit get the ax?

   Boston.com
   Mayo 24, 2023
   El Instituto Lincoln en las noticias

8. New Hampshire: Heavy Property Tax Reliance and Longstanding School Finance Litigation

   Documentos de trabajo
   Abril 2023
   Semida Munteanu, Bethany Paquin, and Sydney Zelinka

   New Hampshire does not levy a broad-based sales or individual income tax and therefore is the state most reliant on property taxes. In 1999, New Hampshire dramatically changed its system of school...

9. Introduction to the Property Tax–School Funding Connection

   Diciembre 2022

   Property taxation and school funding are closely linked in the United States. Forty-five percent of total public K–12 education revenues come from local governments and 80 percent of the local share...

10. Comparative Measures of Property Tax Equity in Suffolk County, Massachusetts

    Documentos de trabajo
    Agosto 2022
    Ronald W. Rakow

    A nationwide analysis of property tax assessments and sales data over a ten-year period, by Christopher Berry of the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, found pervasive...