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Communities need to reconsider their use of tax-increment financing, or TIF, a popular economic development tool that has often fallen short of its promise to revitalize struggling neighborhoods, according to a report published by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
- Press Releases
September 11, 2018
Kevyn Orr, a legal expert who oversaw the largest and most complicated municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history as emergency manager for the city of Detroit, has joined the board of directors of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
- Press Releases
May 23, 2018
Despite a drop in numbers across much of the United States since the recession, vacant and abandoned properties continue to dog struggling postindustrial cities, tearing apart neighborhoods with growing intensity, according to a report published by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
- Press Releases
May 15, 2018
In Los Angeles, a new owner of a median-valued home pays about $7,000 per year in property taxes – nearly double the $4,000 paid by someone who has owned an identical home for 14 years, the average length of homeownership in the city, according to the annual 50-State Property Tax Comparison Study...
- Press Releases
April 17, 2018
The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy has released a comprehensive update of State-by-State Property Tax at a Glance, the most thorough online resource for U.S. property tax information for policy makers, researchers, journalists, the real estate industry, and home owners.
- Press Releases
March 14, 2018
The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy is launching a global campaign to promote the adoption of land value capture, a policy approach by which communities recover and reinvest the land value generated by public investment and other government action.
- Press Releases
February 7, 2018
President and Chief Executive Officer
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Senior Fellow and Chair, Department of Valuation and Taxation
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Assistant Professor of Practice & Co-Director, Managing for Social Impact
Carroll School of Management, Boston College
Senior Fellow and Director of China Program
Peking University-Lincoln Institute Center
Beijing, China
July 9, 2020
- The New York Times
Biking was of course already becoming a ride of choice for an increasing number of residents before this year — more than 1.6 million New Yorkers rode bikes in 2019, according to the city’s own count. Since the coronavirus, bike sales have spiked, not just here. They have nearly doubled nationwide...
June 17, 2020
- City Limits
As protests continue over the death of George Floyd and other Black Americans at the hands of police officers, activists have increasingly called on leaders to defund the police. But not everyone agrees on what defunding would mean, or what it would look like.
June 17, 2020
- Nonprofit Quarterly
Now, more than ever, it is time to pivot to proven housing models that guarantee security of tenure—those involving community land ownership. Options such as community land trusts (CLTs), limited equity co-ops (LECs), and resident-owned communities (ROCs) have been woefully underfunded up until now...
June 12, 2020
- The New York Times
In Boston, Los Angeles and Milwaukee, about one in every 10 dollars of local government spending goes to the police. In Minneapolis, it’s about one in every 20 dollars. The police share of spending has grown over the past 40 years, even as cities have become far safer. And the protesters who are...
May 14, 2020
- Columbia University Press Blog
COVID-19 has introduced countless uncertainties into our lives. To prepare for the future, organizations ranging from hospitals to school districts to transit agencies, are using scenario planning, a framework for creating and analyzing multiple plausible versions of the future. In this interview...
April 10, 2020
- The New York Times
Local governments rely on them to pay for services like trash pickup and the public schools. But some are trying to give flexibility to homeowners in financial trouble.