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1. 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...

2. The History and Purpose of Tax Increment Finance Policy in Wisconsin

   Do Wisconsin Tax Increment Finance Districts Stimulate Growth in Real Estate Values? Do They Contribute to Sprawl?
   Documentos de trabajo
   Mayo 2007
   Russell Kashian, Mark Skidmore, and David Merriman

   Like other U.S. states, tax increment financing (TIF) is an important component of the development policy landscape in Wisconsin. While the guidelines for the use of TIF are similar to those that...

3. What Happens When a Large City Doesn't Have a Property Tax But Attempts to Enact One

   A Case Study of Mesa Arizona
   Documentos de trabajo
   Abril 2007
   Jeffrey I. Chapman

   Mesa, a city with a population of approximately 450,000, is the largest city in the United States without a property tax. It has also grown very rapidly in the last 25 years, although now its growth...

4. Property Taxation in Anglophone Africa

   Revista Land Lines
   Abril 2007
   Riël C.D. Franzsen

   A well-functioning property tax system could offer many benefits to the nations of sub-Saharan Africa. A dependable and locally administered source of revenue would greatly benefit local democracy...

5. Talking taxes

   Entradas de blog
   Enero 2007

6. Community Land Trusts

   A Solution for Permanently Affordable Housing
   Revista Land Lines
   Enero 2007
   Rosalind Greenstein and Yesim Sungu-Eryilmaz

   The community land trust (CLT) is one mechanism that addresses the need for affordable housing, and it also can be considered an institutional mechanism for capturing socially produced land value.

7. Tax Base Sharing

   Local Response to Fiscal Federalism
   Otro
   Enero 1979
   Paul Smith

   Written in 1979, this archival report was published as a Land Policy Roundtable and is Case Studies Series number 303. The nation’s first experience with tax base sharing was in the twin cities...