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1. Private Conservation Easements

   Balancing Private Initiative and the Public Interest
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2009
   Gerald Korngold

   A commonly used property rights approach to conserving the environment is private conservation easements. Gerald Korngold discusses the benefits of this policy and proposes methods to mediate some of...

2. Local Revenues Under Fiscal Decentralization in Developing Countries

   Linking Policy Reform, Governance, and Capacity
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2008
   Paul Smoke

   Paul Smoke examines local revenue generation under fiscal decentralization in developing countries. He finds that local capacity for generating own-source funds is rare due to a lack of attention to...

3. Community Land Trusts and Housing Affordability

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2007
   Steven C. Bourassa

   The U.S. government housing programs for assisting low-income families are administered largely at the state and local levels, and they include the Section 8 (Housing Choice Voucher) program, Section...

4. 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...

5. 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...

6. Zoning Rules!

   The Economics of Land Use Regulation
   Libros
   Julio 2015
   William A. Fischel

   “Fischel . . . does for the housing debate what zoning once did for cities: brings order and coherence to what’s otherwise a mess.” — Ezra Klein, New York Times This best-...

7. Use-Value Assessment of Rural Land in the United States

   Libros
   Junio 2014
   John E. Anderson and Richard W. England

   This work explains and analyzes critical questions raised by the use-value assessment (UVA) policy for farmland preservation. It covers the origins, key features, impacts, and flaws of UVA programs...

8. Value Capture and Land Policies

   Libros
   Mayo 2012
   Edited by Gregory K. Ingram and Yu-Hung Hong

   Attention to value capture as a source of public revenue has been increasing in the United States and internationally as some governments experience declines in revenue from traditional sources and...

9. Land Policies and Their Outcomes

   Libros
   Mayo 2007
   Edited by Gregory K. Ingram and Yu-Hung Hong

   This book presents the main contributions to a Lincoln Institute conference, “Land Policies for Urban Development,” held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in June 2006. The conference was...

10. Land Lines, July 2009

    Revista Land Lines
    Julio 2009
    Edited by Ann LeRoyer

    This issue explores the American university’s evolved role as a driver of urban development; a joint venture between the Lincoln Institute and the African Tax Institute to shed light on African...