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1. The Effects of Flood Buyouts and Green Infrastructure on Nearby Property Values

   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 2023
   Ryun Jung Lee, Wayne Day, Alexander Abuabara, Galen Newman, and Walter Peacock

   Property buyouts have been widely implemented as a hazard mitigation strategy to relocate residents to a safer location and reduce potential flood damages. Green infrastructure is an established...

2. The Case for Climate-Informed Zoning

   A Study of Fiscal Impact in Norfolk, VA
   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2023
   Katherine Burgess, Michael Rodriguez, Jordan Howard, Jared Klukas, and Megan Wright

   As the impacts of climate change continue to intensify, zoning presents a key tool to direct development to protect communities from climate events. Norfolk, Virginia, a city at severe risk from sea...

3. Can Removing Development Subsidies Promote Adaptation?

   The Coastal Barrier Resources System as a Natural Experiment
   Documentos de trabajo
   Mayo 2023
   Hannah Druckenmiller, Yanjun (Penny) Liao, Sophie Pesek, Margaret Walls, and Shan Zhang

   As natural disasters grow in frequency and intensity under climate change, limiting populations and properties in harm's way will be one important facet of adaptation. This study focuses on one...

4. New Hampshire: Heavy Property Tax Reliance and Longstanding School Finance Litigation

   Documentos de trabajo
   Abril 2023
   Semida Munteanu, Bethany Paquin, and Sydney Zelinka

   New Hampshire does not levy a broad-based sales or individual income tax and therefore is the state most reliant on property taxes. In 1999, New Hampshire dramatically changed its system of school...

5. Getting Zoning for Manufactured Housing Right

   Documentos de trabajo
   Febrero 2023
   Daniel R. Mandelker

   This working paper discusses zoning barriers to manufactured housing. Zoning is a poorly constructed system that allows local governments to restrict manufactured housing. Zoning restrictions create...

6. A Series of Articles about the MBTA Communities Zoning Law

   Documentos de trabajo
   Diciembre 2022
   Amy Dain

   In 2021, the Massachusetts state legislature adopted the MBTA Communities zoning law requiring municipalities served by Greater Boston’s public transit agency, the MBTA, (with the exception of...

7. Building Equity

   Equitable Real Estate Development Strategies for Weak Markets
   Documentos de trabajo
   Octubre 2022
   Erica Spaid Patras, Maria Walliser-Wejebe, and Alison Goebel

   Local public, private, philanthropic, and nonprofit changemakers have joined a growing national call to increase equitable outcomes for people of color and low-income residents. The need to improve...

8. Community Resilience Through Small Scale Manufacturing

   An Introduction for Smaller Legacy Cities
   Documentos de trabajo
   Octubre 2022
   Sarah Yeung

   Smaller legacy cities face shared and common challenges which have increased the urgency for economic development strategies that draw a stronger connection from growth to the prosperity of local...

9. Typologies of Integration

   An Analysis of Municipal Landscaping and Water Management Practices in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
   Documentos de trabajo
   Septiembre 2022
   Lauren Ames Fischer and Matthew Fry

   How do municipalities in the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) region integrate their land use and water conservation efforts? How do local practices correlate with institutional, development, and population...

10. Comparative Measures of Property Tax Equity in Suffolk County, Massachusetts

    Documentos de trabajo
    Agosto 2022
    Ronald W. Rakow

    A nationwide analysis of property tax assessments and sales data over a ten-year period, by Christopher Berry of the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, found pervasive...