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Doing Bad by Doing Good?
An Empirical Analysis of the Incentives from Informal Settlements’ Upgrading Programs on Urban InformalityDocumentos de trabajoMarzo 2019Cynthia Goytia and Guadalupe DornaThis paper has two different aims. First, we investigate the effects of informal settlements upgrading programs through a systematic review synthesizing the information provided by evaluations of...
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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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Definición de políticas de suelo urbano en América Latina
Teoría y prácticaLibrosDiciembre 2013Edited by Diego Alfonso ErbaDefinición de políticas de suelo urbano en América Latina: Teoría y práctica (Defining Urban Land Policies in Latin America: Theory and Practice) presents concepts...
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The Affordability Challenge
Inclusionary Housing and Community Land Trusts in a Federal SystemPonenciasMayo 2012Richard P. Voith and Susan M. WachterRichard P. Voith and Susan M. Wachter discuss the relationship between building durable affordable housing and land value capture, using inclusionary housing requirements and community land trusts (...
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Airport Improvement Fees, Benefit Spillovers, and Land Value Capture Mechanisms
PonenciasMayo 2012Anming ZhangAirports may use land value capture as a funding source for infrastructure improvements. Anming Zhang explores the questions of how positive externalities generated by airports should be internalized...
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Public and Private School Competition and U.S. Fiscal Federalism
PonenciasMayo 2008Thomas J. NechybaThe traditional public school finance system under U.S. fiscal federalism has generated concern that the use of housing markets to ration resources and students to public schools may increase income...
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Brazil’s Urban Land and Housing Markets
How Well Are They Working?PonenciasMayo 2007David E. DowallAs does the United States, Brazil faces many housing policy challenges. David E. Dowell points out that Brazilian housing is expensive and lacks local services and secure land tenure—a phenomenon...
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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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Instrumentos notables de políticas de suelo en América Latina
LibrosAbril 2014Edited by Martim O. Smolka and Fernanda FurtadoBased 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...