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Can Removing Development Subsidies Promote Adaptation?
The Coastal Barrier Resources System as a Natural ExperimentDocumentos de trabajoMayo 2023Hannah Druckenmiller, Yanjun (Penny) Liao, Sophie Pesek, Margaret Walls, and Shan ZhangAs 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...
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The Fiscal Impact of Municipal Administrative Center Relocation
Documentos de trabajoMayo 2023Min Su, Can Chen, and Cathy Yang LiuThe 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...
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New Hampshire: Heavy Property Tax Reliance and Longstanding School Finance Litigation
Documentos de trabajoAbril 2023Semida Munteanu, Bethany Paquin, and Sydney ZelinkaNew 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...
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How Landscape Conservation Partnerships Are Working to Address Climate Change
Documentos de trabajoAbril 2023Ernest Cook, Katherine Lyons, Rashail Deminck, Lucia Portman, and Molly McDevittLand 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...
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Assessing the Feasibility of Comprehensively Evaluating Duty to Serve’s Impacts
Documentos de trabajoMarzo 2023Esther Choi, Emma Donnelly, Yasmin Givens, Riley Meve, and Serena ShedorePreserving 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...
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China’s Shifting Demographic Geography
Insights from the 2020 CensusDocumentos de trabajoFebrero 2023Douglas Webster, Jianming Cai, Larissa Muller, and Feifei ZhangThis 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 (...
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Getting Zoning for Manufactured Housing Right
Documentos de trabajoFebrero 2023Daniel R. MandelkerThis 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...
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Building Collaboration among Community Land Trusts Providing Affordable Housing and Conservation Land Trusts Protecting Land for Ecological Value
Documentos de trabajoEnero 2023Katie Michels and David A. HindinThe 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...
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Urban Planning and Land Value Capture
Case Study of Belo Horizonte, BrazilDocumentos de trabajoEnero 2023Maria Fernandes CaldasThis 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 (...
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A Series of Articles about the MBTA Communities Zoning Law
Documentos de trabajoDiciembre 2022Amy DainIn 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...
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