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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. How Homestead Exemptions Can Counteract Regressivity in Property Tax Assessments

   Documentos de trabajo
   Marzo 2024
   Ron Rakow, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

   Evidence presented in several recent academic studies using national datasets indicates widespread regressivity in property tax assessments. This can be due to statutory limits on assessment levels...

3. 2024 Urban Economics and Public Finance Conference

   Eventos
   Abril 19, 2024
   Abby Ostriker, Anna Russo, C. Luke Watson, Nathan Seegert, Mark Skidmore, Camila Alvayay-Torrejon, Erin Troland, and Brent Ambrose

   The economic growth and development of urban areas are closely linked to local fiscal conditions. This research seminar offers a forum for new academic work on the interaction of these two areas.

4. Máster en Políticas de Suelo y Desarrollo Urbano Sostenible

   Cursos
   Enero 15, 2024

   El máster en Políticas de Suelo y Desarrollo Urbano Sostenible es un programa académico online en español que reúne de manera única los marcos legales y herramientas que sostienen la planificación urbana.

5. New England Workshop for State Property Tax Oversight

   Eventos
   Marzo 25, 2024

   This meeting provides an opportunity for participants to consider the best means of assisting, training, regulating, and providing technical assistance to local assessors in collaboration with professional assessment organizations.

6. Successful Property Tax Reform: The Case of Massachusetts

   Educación a distancia
   Enero 26, 2022
   Faculty: Karl E. Case, Jane Malme, and Ronald Rakow

   This course examines the deep problems of the Massachusetts property tax in the 1970s and the subsequent reforms that created one of the most functional and fair systems in the United States.

7. Transitioning Out of Capped Property Assessments

   The Value Recapture Approach
   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 2023
   Carmela Quintos

   Assessment caps lead to inequities because the same growth limit is applied to high and low growth properties. For high growth properties that fall under the cap, the assessments are artificially...

8. 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.

9. 2023 Journalists Forum

   Eventos
   Noviembre 17, 2023
   Partners: TD Charitable Foundation and Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University

   The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy invited journalists to attend the 2023 Journalists Forum focused on housing affordability on November 17–18, 2023 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

10. Green Infrastructure, Home Values, Land Value Capture, and Equitable Property Assessment

    Documentos de trabajo
    Julio 2023
    Jeffrey P. Cohen, Michael Dietz, and Yuchen Huang

    Climate change has necessitated innovative approaches to financing storm water mitigation in coastal communities throughout the world. We study how adding bioswales near residential properties in New...