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Detroit and the Property Tax
Strategies to Improve Equity and Enhance RevenueEnfoques en políticas de sueloNoviembre 2015Gary Sands and Mark SkidmoreThis 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...
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Use-Value Assessment of Rural Lands
Time for Reform?Enfoques en políticas de sueloNoviembre 2015Use-value assessment (UVA) is the practice of valuing rural land according to its current use rather than its market value to reduce property taxes for rural land owners in the United States. This...
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Inclusionary Housing
Creating and Maintaining Equitable CommunitiesEnfoques en políticas de sueloSeptiembre 2015Rick JacobusThis report illustrates how local governments can realize the full benefits of inclusionary housing policies, which require developers of new market-rate real estate to provide some affordable units...
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50-State Property Tax Comparison Study
OtroAbril 2015Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and Minnesota Center for Fiscal ExcellenceView the latest version of the Property Tax Comparison Study. The annual 50-state property tax comparison study, a partnership of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and the Minnesota Center for...
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The Past and Future of the Urban Property Tax
PonenciasNoviembre 2015Grant Driessen and Steven SheffrinFor U.S. cities, the property tax is the single largest source of own-source revenue, but the extent to which different cities rely on property tax revenues varies significantly. Grant Driessen and...
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An Evaluation of China’s Land Policy and Urban Housing Markets
PonenciasNoviembre 2015In this paper, Joyce Y. Man examines the evolution of Chinese housing policies and the growth of the Chinese housing market since the reforms of 1998, when the Chinese government ended its...
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Housing Policies and Urban Development
Lessons from the Latin American Experience, 1960–2010PonenciasNoviembre 2015Eduardo RojasAccess and opportunity are tied in many different ways to location. One’s neighborhood and neighbors can have dramatic effects on health and political, socioeconomic, and education opportunities and...
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Zoning Rules!
The Economics of Land Use RegulationLibrosJulio 2015“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-...
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Chronicle of the 161-Year History of State-Imposed Property Tax Limitations
Documentos de trabajoAbril 2015Bethany P. PaquinThis working paper chronicles the enactment and repeal of state-imposed property tax rate limits, levy limits, and assessment limits, binding and non-binding, from the first documented limit enacted...
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Measuring the Impacts of Tax and Expenditure Limits on Public School Finance in Colorado
Documentos de trabajoAgosto 2015Phyllis Resnick, Charles Brown, and Deborah GodshallThis research explores the effect of tax and expenditure limitations, especially the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR), on school finance in Colorado. It quantifies the distributional and...
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