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El escritorio del alcalde
Fomentar la resiliencia ante el cambio climático en Sierra LeonaRevista Land LinesEnero 2023Por Anthony FlintLa 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...
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Land Lines, Abril 2022
Revista Land LinesAbril 2022Editado por Katharine WrothEn 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...
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Mayor’s Desk: Cultivating Climate Resilience in Sierra Leone
Revista Land LinesNoviembre 2022By Anthony Flint, November 10, 2022Freetown, 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...
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Land Lines, Enero/Abril 2021
Revista Land LinesEnero 2021Editado por Katharine WrothEste número doble especial de Land Lines conmemora el 75.º aniversario del Instituto Lincoln de Políticas de Suelo, narra la historia de la organización y explora có...
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Tax Battles
Cities Seek Higher Payments in Lieu of Taxes from NonprofitsRevista Land LinesMarzo 2020By Liz Farmer, March 4, 2020At a recent rally in front of Baltimore City Hall, activists sang, chanted, and otherwise voiced their view that the city’s major nonprofit institutions weren’t “paying their fair share” of property...
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Why Tax Increment Financing Often Fails and How Communities Can Do Better
Revista Land LinesSeptiembre 2018By Will Jason, September 11, 2018Tax increment financing, or TIF, is a wildly popular economic development tool in the United States, but it often falls short of its promise to revitalize struggling neighborhoods.
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Q & A
Tax Incentives for Amazon HQ2—When Winners End Up Losers?Revista Land LinesSeptiembre 2018By David FrancoAmazon wants tax incentives to locate its second headquarters. Could the costs outweigh the benefits for a city like Boston?
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Land Lines, July 1997
Revista Land LinesJulio 1997Edited by Ann LeRoyerThis issue looks at the urban renewal and participatory planning efforts simultaneously taking place in Havana, Cuba; land reform and taxation programs in Estonia following its independence in 1991;...
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Message from the President
Strengthening Municipal Fiscal HealthRevista Land LinesAbril 2015When 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...
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Fiscally Standardized Cities (FiSC)
DatabaseBases de datosAgosto 2016The FiSC Database makes it possible to compare local government finances for 150 of the largest U.S. cities across more than 125 categories of revenues, expenditures, debt, and assets, with annual data going back to 1977.