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1. Rethinking the Property Tax-School Funding Dilemma

   Resúmenes de políticas públicas
   Febrero 2023
   By Daphne A. Kenyon, Bethany Paquin, and Andrew Reschovsky

   This policy brief focuses on the roles of the local property tax and state aid in the funding of public education and analyzes their strengths and weaknesses. A key theme is the property tax–...

2. Definición de políticas de suelo urbano en América Latina

   Teoría y práctica
   Libros
   Diciembre 2013
   Edited by Diego Alfonso Erba

   Definición de políticas de suelo urbano en América Latina: Teoría y práctica (Defining Urban Land Policies in Latin America: Theory and Practice) presents concepts...

3. The Decentralization of Governance in Metropolitan Areas

   Ponencias
   Abril 2013
   Roy W. Bahl

   The theory and practice of providing government services in metropolitan areas are subjects that have attracted a great deal of attention in the industrial countries but have been largely ignored in...

4. The Affordability Challenge

   Inclusionary Housing and Community Land Trusts in a Federal System
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2012
   Richard P. Voith and Susan M. Wachter

   Richard P. Voith and Susan M. Wachter discuss the relationship between building durable affordable housing and land value capture, using inclusionary housing requirements and community land trusts (...

5. Airport Improvement Fees, Benefit Spillovers, and Land Value Capture Mechanisms

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2012
   Anming Zhang

   Airports may use land value capture as a funding source for infrastructure improvements. Anming Zhang explores the questions of how positive externalities generated by airports should be internalized...

6. Public and Private School Competition and U.S. Fiscal Federalism

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2008
   Thomas J. Nechyba

   The traditional public school finance system under U.S. fiscal federalism has generated concern that the use of housing markets to ration resources and students to public schools may increase income...

7. U.S. Urban Revitalization in the Twenty-First Century

   Hopeful Signs
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2007
   Eugénie L. Birch

   Eugénie L. Birch discusses past attempts by municipalities to revitalize U.S. inner cities. The U.S. urban renewal strategies described by Birch are similar in many ways to the British urban...

8. Brazil’s Urban Land and Housing Markets

   How Well Are They Working?
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2007
   David E. Dowall

   As does the United States, Brazil faces many housing policy challenges. David E. Dowell points out that Brazilian housing is expensive and lacks local services and secure land tenure—a phenomenon...

9. 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-...

10. Instrumentos notables de políticas de suelo en América Latina

    Libros
    Abril 2014
    Edited by Martim O. Smolka and Fernanda Furtado

    Based on work presented at the May 2013 Latin American Forum on Noteworthy Instruments of Urban Intervention, this book (which includes work written in Spanish and Portuguese) presents 21 case...