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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. 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.

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. 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...

5. 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-...

6. Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on the Property Tax

   Libros
   Enero 2010
   Edited by Roy Bahl, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Joan Youngman

   This book reviews the role of the property tax, addresses the reasons behind its poor performance in practice, and critiques the conventional wisdom in academic literature on the subject. It also...

7. Reexamining the Property Tax Exemption

   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 2003
   H. Woods Bowman

   Government-owned property is exempt from local taxes almost everywhere in the United States, but this situation is based less on logic than on now-outdated historical considerations. Remarkably,...

8. Message from the President

   Strengthening Municipal Fiscal Health
   Revista Land Lines
   Abril 2015
   George W. McCarthy

   When one looks at fiscally distressed cities, it is easy to conclude that insolvency is simply a product of ineffective management, a lack of financial discipline, or the incompetence or corruption...

9. State-by-State Property Tax at a Glance

   Data Visualization
   Visualización de datos
   Febrero 2018

   This data visualization tool allows users to compare a wide range of property tax statistics and key features of each state’s tax system. The companion narratives provide valuable context on the history of property tax systems and recent developments.

10. Scenario Planning

    We can't predict the future, but we can prepare for it.
    Visualización de datos
    Noviembre 2017

    What is scenario planning? Scenario planning is a practice through which communities plan for an uncertain future by exploring multiple possibilities of what might happen. The practice guides...