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1. 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.

2. Property Tax Relief for Homeowners (Webinar)

   Eventos
   Septiembre 13, 2022
   Speakers: Adam H. Langley, Joan Youngman, and Ronald Rakow
   Moderator: Kim Rueben

   This webinar will describe a set of policies that can address common property tax challenges without undermining its strengths as a local revenue source.

3. Improving Tax Increment Financing (TIF) for Economic Development

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Septiembre 2018
   David Merriman

   “This report will be the ‘go-to’ resource for public policy practitioners, municipal officials, and worldwide local development officers for two reasons. First, it is written by a...

4. Webinar Series- The Property Tax-School Funding Connection

   Eventos
   Mayo 18, 2020
   Moderator: Daphne Kenyon
   Speakers: Julie Underwood, Laura Ullrich, Lynn Moak

   This webinar series explores the experience of three states that have enacted various types of property tax limitations and the efforts taken to ensure continued adequate funding for public education.

5. Detroit and the Property Tax

   Strategies to Improve Equity and Enhance Revenue
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Noviembre 2015
   Gary Sands and Mark Skidmore

   This 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...

6. Use-Value Assessment of Rural Lands

   Time for Reform?
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Noviembre 2015
   John E. Anderson and Richard W. England

   Use-value assessment (UVA) is the practice of valuing rural land according to its current use rather than its market value to reduce property taxes for rural land owners in the United States. This...

7. Rethinking Property Tax Incentives for Business

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Junio 2012
   Daphne A. Kenyon, Adam H. Langley, and Bethany P. Paquin

   State and local governments use many types of property tax incentives to increase business development. This report reviews those incentives, summarizes the literature regarding their effectiveness,...

8. Property Tax Circuit Breakers

   Fair and Cost-Effective Relief for Taxpayers
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Mayo 2009
   John H. Bowman, Daphne A. Kenyon, Adam Langley and Bethany P. Paquin

   This report presents the rationale for providing property tax relief to those who have a high relative tax burden, compares the fairness of various criteria used by states for eligibility, and...

9. Property Tax Assessment Limits

   Lessons from Thirty Years of Experience
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Junio 2008
   Mark Haveman and Terri A. Sexton

   During the 30 years since California adopted its groundbreaking tax limitation measure known as Proposition 13, pressure has persisted for states to adopt various forms of property tax relief. These...

10. Housing Markets and the Fiscal Health of US Central Cities

    Eventos
    Abril 17, 2017
    Cosponsored with the Urban Institute

    Cosponsored with the Urban Institute, this event will offer insights from two recent research projects funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation that explore the links between shocks to urban housing markets and central cities’ finances.