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1. Can Removing Development Subsidies Promote Adaptation?

   The Coastal Barrier Resources System as a Natural Experiment
   Documentos de trabajo
   Mayo 2023
   Hannah Druckenmiller, Yanjun (Penny) Liao, Sophie Pesek, Margaret Walls, and Shan Zhang

   As natural disasters grow in frequency and intensity under climate change, limiting populations and properties in harm's way will be one important facet of adaptation. This study focuses on one...

2. The Fiscal Impact of Municipal Administrative Center Relocation

   Documentos de trabajo
   Mayo 2023
   Min Su, Can Chen, and Cathy Yang Liu

   The relocation of administrative centers is an important policy instrument in China, empowering cities to promote urban economic growth, strengthen public finance, and improve public service...

3. New Hampshire: Heavy Property Tax Reliance and Longstanding School Finance Litigation

   Documentos de trabajo
   Abril 2023
   Semida Munteanu, Bethany Paquin, and Sydney Zelinka

   New Hampshire does not levy a broad-based sales or individual income tax and therefore is the state most reliant on property taxes. In 1999, New Hampshire dramatically changed its system of school...

4. How Landscape Conservation Partnerships Are Working to Address Climate Change

   Documentos de trabajo
   Abril 2023
   Ernest Cook, Katherine Lyons, Rashail Deminck, Lucia Portman, and Molly McDevitt 

   Land conservation – defined as land protection, restoration and stewardship – can be used to address climate change both by mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and by helping human and...

5. Assessing the Feasibility of Comprehensively Evaluating Duty to Serve’s Impacts

   Documentos de trabajo
   Marzo 2023
   Esther Choi, Emma Donnelly, Yasmin Givens, Riley Meve, and Serena Shedore

   Preserving affordable housing, reducing inequality in homeownership, and reaching underserved populations in the U.S. are significant priorities for the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) and the...

6. China’s Shifting Demographic Geography

   Insights from the 2020 Census
   Documentos de trabajo
   Febrero 2023
   Douglas Webster, Jianming Cai, Larissa Muller, and Feifei Zhang

   This monograph identifies key changes (trends, abrupt changes) in the 21st Century spatial distribution of the Chinese population, based primarily on absolute and relative changes between the 2010 (...

7. Getting Zoning for Manufactured Housing Right

   Documentos de trabajo
   Febrero 2023
   Daniel R. Mandelker

   This working paper discusses zoning barriers to manufactured housing. Zoning is a poorly constructed system that allows local governments to restrict manufactured housing. Zoning restrictions create...

8. Building Collaboration among Community Land Trusts Providing Affordable Housing and Conservation Land Trusts Protecting Land for Ecological Value

   Documentos de trabajo
   Enero 2023
   Katie Michels and David A. Hindin

   The community land trust and conservation land trust movements are each advancing longterm, beneficial uses of land for public needs. Community land trusts primarily focus on obtaining land for...

9. Urban Planning and Land Value Capture

   Case Study of Belo Horizonte, Brazil
   Documentos de trabajo
   Enero 2023
   Maria Fernandes Caldas

   This case study reflects on the history and implementation of land value capture policies in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte, especially the use of the Outorga Onerosa do Direito de Construir (...

10. A Series of Articles about the MBTA Communities Zoning Law

    Documentos de trabajo
    Diciembre 2022
    Amy Dain

    In 2021, the Massachusetts state legislature adopted the MBTA Communities zoning law requiring municipalities served by Greater Boston’s public transit agency, the MBTA, (with the exception of...