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Detroit and the Property Tax
Strategies to Improve Equity and Enhance RevenueEnfoques en políticas de sueloNoviembre 2015Gary Sands and Mark SkidmoreThis 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...
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Governing and Financing Cities in the Developing World
Enfoques en políticas de sueloMayo 2014Roy W. Bahl and Johannes F. LinnThe economic activity that drives growth in developing countries is heavily concentrated in urban areas. Big cities generate the most dynamic economic development, the strongest links to the global...
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Lincoln Scholars Program Alumni
Agosto 2018This program provides an opportunity for recent PhDs specializing in public finance or urban economics to work with senior economists. 2021 Tina Beale Programme Leader, University of Technology,...
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Land Lines, January 2011
Revista Land LinesEnero 2011Edited by Ann LeRoyerThis issue explores the process of instituting property tax reform in Brazil; varied results of property tax assessment measures in two Chicago-area counties; and the fiscal challenges of maintaining...
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Land Lines, October 2010
Revista Land LinesOctubre 2010Edited by Ann LeRoyerThis issue highlights U.S. foreclosure rate comparisons between standard market-rate residences and homes owned by land trusts; the effects of the national housing crisis on state and local...
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Land Lines, July 2010
Revista Land LinesJulio 2010Edited by Ann LeRoyerThis issue provides various reflections on the U.S. foreclosure crisis of the mid-2000s; an analysis of housing reform and homeowner security in Buenos Aires, Argentina; and an overview of the...
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Land Lines, July 2007
Revista Land LinesJulio 2007Edited by Ann LeRoyerThis issue explores the lodging of rural migrants in China’s urbanizing villages; the unforeseen consequences of U.S. property assessment caps; international trends in the use of eminent domain...
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Land Lines, October 2003
Revista Land LinesOctubre 2003Edited by Ann LeRoyerThis issue looks at the shifting political landscape of urban mega-projects in the U.S.; urban renewal actions in a South African township; and the administration of property taxes in Brazil and...
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Land Lines, January 2001
Revista Land LinesEnero 2001Edited by Ann LeRoyerThis issue explores the increasingly common and successful phenomenon of urban farming, and the need for more of it, in the U.S.; participatory budgeting and power politics in Brazil’s Porto...
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Foreclosures and Neighborhoods
The Shape and Impacts of the U.S. Mortgage CrisisPonenciasNoviembre 2015Dan ImmergluckThis paper explores the root cause of municipal fiscal stress and documents the effects of foreclosures in the United States. The author, Dan Immergluck, examines the household- and neighborhood-...
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