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1. Public and Private School Competition and U.S. Fiscal Federalism

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2008
   Thomas J. Nechyba

   The traditional public school finance system under U.S. fiscal federalism has generated concern that the use of housing markets to ration resources and students to public schools may increase income...

2. Community Associations

   Decentralizing Local Government Privately
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2008
   Robert H. Nelson

   In this paper, Robert H. Nelson describes an important change in local governance structure under the U.S. federal system. There has been a rapid increase in the number of residence-based, voluntary...

3. Increasing the Effectiveness of Public Service Delivery

   A Tournament Approach
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2008
   Clifford F. Zinnes

   Interjurisdictional competition under fiscal decentralization may give local governments the incentive to lower their environmental policy standards or grant businesses with lucrative tax exemptions...

4. The Economics of Conservation Easements

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2007
   Andrew J. Plantinga

   Environmental preservation—or more specifically conservation easements—is an area of public action that affects property values. According to Andrew J. Plantinga, by 2005 about 3.9 million acres of...

5. Taxing Land and Property in Emerging Economies

   Raising Revenue . . . and More?
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2007
   Richard M. Bird and Enid Slack

   Richard M. Bird and Enid Slack examine the potential of land and property taxation in developing and transition countries. Bird and Slack present a less optimistic view of the use of land and...

6. The United Kingdom’s Experience in Revitalizing Inner Cities

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2007
   Peter Hall

   Peter Hall discusses chronologically the urban regeneration effects undertaken in the United Kingdom over the past 30 years. The British urban development patterns discussed by Hall are very...

7. U.S. Urban Revitalization in the Twenty-First Century

   Hopeful Signs
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2007
   Eugénie L. Birch

   Eugénie L. Birch discusses past attempts by municipalities to revitalize U.S. inner cities. The U.S. urban renewal strategies described by Birch are similar in many ways to the British urban...

8. Multiple-Home Ownership and the Income Elasticity of Housing Demand

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2007
   Eric Belsky, Zhu Xiao Di, and Dan McCue

   An interesting trend in the U.S. housing market is the growing number of households owning second homes. This topic is of interest because households that divide their consumption of housing services...

9. Brazil’s Urban Land and Housing Markets

   How Well Are They Working?
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2007
   David E. Dowall

   As does the United States, Brazil faces many housing policy challenges. David E. Dowell points out that Brazilian housing is expensive and lacks local services and secure land tenure—a phenomenon...

10. Land and the City

    Libros
    Enero 2016
    Edited by George W. McCarthy, Gregory K. Ingram, and Samuel A. Moody

    This book from the Lincoln Institute's 2014 Land Policy Conference examines issues of land use policies and their impact on sustainable urbanization. By 1960, one-third of the world’s...