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1. Rethinking the Property Tax-School Funding Dilemma

   Resúmenes de políticas públicas
   Febrero 2023
   By Daphne A. Kenyon, Bethany Paquin, and Andrew Reschovsky

   This policy brief focuses on the roles of the local property tax and state aid in the funding of public education and analyzes their strengths and weaknesses. A key theme is the property tax–...

2. El escritorio del alcalde

   Fomentar la resiliencia ante el cambio climático en Sierra Leona
   Revista Land Lines
   Enero 2023
   Por Anthony Flint

   La alcaldesa Yvonne Denise Aki-Sawyerr asumió su cargo en Freetown, Sierra Leona, en mayo de 2018, después de desempeñarse como jefa del Ayuntamiento de la ciudad de Freetown. La profesional de las...

3. Land Lines, Abril 2022

   Revista Land Lines
   Abril 2022
   Editado por Katharine Wroth

   En este número, se analizan las soluciones locales de la crisis de capacidad de pago de la vivienda, el aumento de un ecosistema de inversión comunitaria en Appalachia y mucho má...

4. Escuelas publicas y el impuesto a la propiedad

   Comparación de modelos de financiamiento para la educación de tres estados de los Estados Unidos
   Revista Land Lines
   Abril 2022
   Por Daphne Kenyon, Bethany Paquin y Semida Munteanu

   Como resultado de la COVID-19, los gestores de políticas tienen una nueva oportunidad de elaborar financiamientos que combinen impuestos sobre la propiedad inmobiliaria y ayuda estatal con el...

5. Mayor’s Desk: Cultivating Climate Resilience in Sierra Leone

   Revista Land Lines
   Noviembre 2022
   By Anthony Flint, November 10, 2022

   Freetown, Sierra Leone, is one of seven cities around the world that have appointed chief heat officers as part of a global effort to invest in a climate-resilient future. Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr...

6. Public Schools and the Property Tax: A Comparison of Education Funding Models in Three U.S. States

   Revista Land Lines
   Abril 2022
   By Daphne Kenyon, Bethany Paquin, and Semida Munteanu, April 12, 2022

   In the wake of COVID-19, policy makers have a new opportunity to craft a combination of state aid and local property tax funding that enables all students to obtain an adequate and equitable education. 

7. Urban Land Value Capture in São Paulo, Addis Ababa, and Hyderabad

   Differing Interpretations, Equity Impacts, and Enabling Conditions
   Documentos de trabajo
   Enero 2020
   Anjali Mahendra, Robin King, Erin Gray, Maria Hart, Laura Azeredo, Luana Betti, Surya Prakash, Amartya Deb, Elleni Ashebir, and Asmaa Ibrahim

   This paper presents analysis of the fiscal and equity impacts of urban land value capture instruments based on three case studies from the global south. These include the Lideta redevelopment in...

8. Governing and Financing Cities in the Developing World

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Mayo 2014
   Roy W. Bahl and Johannes F. Linn

   The economic activity that drives growth in developing countries is heavily concentrated in urban areas. Big cities generate the most dynamic economic development, the strongest links to the global...

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. Instrumentos notables de políticas de suelo en América Latina

    Libros
    Abril 2014
    Edited by Martim O. Smolka and Fernanda Furtado

    Based on work presented at the May 2013 Latin American Forum on Noteworthy Instruments of Urban Intervention, this book (which includes work written in Spanish and Portuguese) presents 21 case...