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Assessment of Property Tax Reductions on Tax Delinquency, Tax Foreclosure, and Home Ownership
Documentos de trabajoEnero 2021Fernanda Alfaro, Dusan Paredes, and Mark SkidmoreIn this report, we provide an evaluation of the impacts in Detroit of reductions in residential effective tax rates on tax delinquency, property tax foreclosure, and homeownership. The decline in...
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Property Tax Delinquency in the United States
Documentos de trabajoMarzo 2020How 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...
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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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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-...