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1. Community Land Trusts and Informal Settlements

   Assessing the Feasibility of CLT Instruments Developed by the Caño Martin Peña Communities in Puerto Rico for Favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
   Documentos de trabajo
   Mayo 2021
   Line Algoed, Alejandro Cotté Morales, Tarcyla Fidalgo Ribeiro, María E. Hernández Torrales, Lyvia Rodríguez Del Valle, and Theresa Williamson

   This report presents an analysis conducted to assess the feasibility of community land trusts (CLT) developed by the Caño Martin Peña communities in Puerto Rico as instruments to...

2. Research, Public Sector Policy Change, Advocacy, Philanthropy and the Private Sector Collide to Create an Affordable Housing and Economic Development Opportunity in Colorado

   The Case of indieDwell
   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2021
   Phyllis Resnick and Jennifer Newcomer

   On July 6, 2020, modular builder indieDwell opened a factory in Pueblo, Colorado with a capacity of 160,000 square feet of housing and plans for expansion. indieDwell’s journey to Colorado was...

3. Duty to Serve

   The Purpose of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and Early Lessons Learned in Underserved Housing Markets
   Documentos de trabajo
   Abril 2021
   By Jim Gray and George W. McCarthy

   Freddie Mac and, for even longer, Fannie Mae (collectively, “the Enterprises”) have played an essential role in the creation of the modern housing finance system in the United States. In...

4. Making the Comeback

   Reversing the Downward Trajectory of African American Middle Neighborhoods in Legacy Cities
   Documentos de trabajo
   Febrero 2021
   Alan Mallach

   This working paper was developed jointly by Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and Center for Community Progress. In this paper I examine trends in Black middle neighborhoods in six legacy cities...

5. Assessment of Property Tax Reductions on Tax Delinquency, Tax Foreclosure, and Home Ownership

   Documentos de trabajo
   Enero 2021
   Fernanda Alfaro, Dusan Paredes, and Mark Skidmore

   In this report, we provide an evaluation of the impacts in Detroit of reductions in residential effective tax rates on tax delinquency, property tax foreclosure, and homeownership. The decline in...

6. Take the Q Train

   Value Capture of Public Infrastructure Projects
   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2020
   Arpit Gupta, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, and Constantine Kontokosta

   Transit infrastructure is a critical asset for economic activity yet costly to build in dense urban environments. We measure the benefit of the Second Avenue Subway extension in New York City by...

7. Large Scale Urban Projects

   The State and Gentrification in the Belo Horizonte Metropolitan Region
   Documentos de trabajo
   Abril 2020
   Roberto Luís de Melo Monte-Mór, Renan Pereira Almeida, and Marcelo de Brito Brandão

   This paper assesses the degree to which a series of large-scale urban projects along the North Axis of the Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte (MRBH), Brazil, may have triggered a process of...

8. Housing Affordability in Chinese Cities

   Documentos de trabajo
   Abril 2020
   Li Sun

   Over the past decade, house prices have kept soaring in Chinese cities, making housing affordability one of the biggest social and political issues in urban China. Existing research on housing...

9. Property Tax Delinquency in the United States

   Documentos de trabajo
   Marzo 2020
   Jenna DeAngelo

   How does a municipality create a property tax enforcement system that is revenue maximizing (property tax collection is as close to 100 percent as possible) but also fair (homeowners are able to...

10. Implementing Value Capture in Israel

    An Examination of Recent Tools and Policies for Urban Renewal and Earthquake Preparedness
    Documentos de trabajo
    Marzo 2020
    Nir Mualam, Eyal Salinger, and Sarah Goldberg

    The working paper investigates one of the most innovative tools in the existing Israeli planning toolkit. TAMA 38, also known as National Outline Plan No. 38, uses value capture in order to help the...