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Coastal States’ Climate Adaptation Initiatives
Sea Level Rise and Municipal EngagementDocumentos de trabajoDiciembre 2012Todd Schenk and Ona FergusonSea level rise is expected to become an increasingly prominent challenge for all levels of government as the climate changes. Complicating matters is the multi-jurisdictional nature of coastal zone...
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Fostering Public Engagement in Water Choices
Lessons from a Sun Corridor WorkshopDocumentos de trabajoOctubre 2012Jim Holway and Alexandra ArboledaWater is an essential component of growth, sustainability and land policy throughout the Colorado River Basin. As Mark Twain famously said of the American west; “whiskey is for drinking and water is...
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Large Landscape Conservation
Recommendations for Online Data and ToolsDocumentos de trabajoOctubre 2012Brenda Faber, Breece Robertson, and Ellie KnechtThe Lincoln Institute of Land Policy initiated the Large Landscape GIS Project to provide design recommendations for an online platform of spatial datasets and planning tools that uniquely support...
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Housing Market Spillovers
Evidence from the End of Rent Control in Cambridge, MassachusettsDocumentos de trabajoOctubre 2012David H. Autor, Christopher J. Palmer, and Parag A. PathakUnderstanding potential spillovers from the attributes and actions of neighborhood residents onto the value of surrounding properties and neighborhoods is central to both the theory of urban...
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Effective Practices in Funding Land Conservation for Impact
Documentos de trabajoOctubre 2012Gina Schrader and Jay EspyThe goal of this project is to help foundations more effectively support land conservation and assist the efforts of conservation practitioners working on the ground. In an effort to document proven...
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Predicting House Price Bubbles and Busts with Econometric Models
What We’ve Learned, What We Still Don’t KnowDocumentos de trabajoSeptiembre 2012James R. Follain and Seth H. GiertzThis paper builds upon our previous study (Follain and Giertz, 2011b) of the house price bubble and bust that has affected many US metropolitan housing markets in the last several years. Here, data...
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A Search for the Underlying Structure Driving House Prices in a Distressed Environment
Documentos de trabajoSeptiembre 2012James R. FollainThis is the third of three papers prepared for the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy about the housing price bubbles and busts in the US. The first two by Follain and Giertz (2011, 2012) use lengthy...
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How are Homeowners Associations Capitalized into Property Values?
Documentos de trabajoJulio 2012Rachel Meltzer and Ron CheungPrivate homeowners associations (HOAs) levy binding fees and provide local services to their members. Both should be capitalized into the value of the member properties, but the net effect is...
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Where in Connecticut is the Best Location for a Split Tax?
An Analysis of Land Assessment Equity in Several CitiesDocumentos de trabajoJulio 2012Jeffrey P. Cohen and Michael J. FedeleLocal assessors’ ability to accurately estimate land values separately from structure values is important when considering a split tax. When the value of land is estimated with less variation, there...
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The Capitalization Effects of Development Impact Fees
Commercial and Residential Land ValuesDocumentos de trabajoJulio 2012Gregory S. BurgeWhile a growing literature has considered the effects development impact fee programs have on new and existing home prices, the supply of residential construction, and employment growth, the nature...
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