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1. Detroit and the Property Tax

   Strategies to Improve Equity and Enhance Revenue
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Noviembre 2015
   Gary Sands and Mark Skidmore

   This 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...

2. Governing and Financing Cities in the Developing World

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Mayo 2014
   Roy W. Bahl and Johannes F. Linn

   The 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...

3. Lincoln Scholars Program Alumni

   Agosto 2018

   This 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,...

4. Land Lines, January 2011

   Revista Land Lines
   Enero 2011
   Edited by Ann LeRoyer

   This 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...

5. Land Lines, October 2010

   Revista Land Lines
   Octubre 2010
   Edited by Ann LeRoyer

   This 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...

6. Land Lines, July 2010

   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 2010
   Edited by Ann LeRoyer

   This 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...

7. Land Lines, July 2007

   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 2007
   Edited by Ann LeRoyer

   This 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...

8. Land Lines, October 2003

   Revista Land Lines
   Octubre 2003
   Edited by Ann LeRoyer

   This 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...

9. Land Lines, January 2001

   Revista Land Lines
   Enero 2001
   Edited by Ann LeRoyer

   This 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...

10. Foreclosures and Neighborhoods

    The Shape and Impacts of the U.S. Mortgage Crisis
    Ponencias
    Noviembre 2015
    Dan Immergluck

    This 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-...