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Why Tax Increment Financing Often Fails and How Communities Can Do Better

September 11, 2018
Tax increment financing, or TIF, is a wildly popular economic development tool in the United States, but it often falls short of its promise to revitalize struggling neighborhoods. So concludes a new Lincoln Institute report that reviews how TIF programs have performed across the nation.Read more »

Tax incentives for Amazon HQ2: when winners end up losers?

August 7, 2018
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Amazon wants tax incentives to locate its second headquarters. Could the costs outweigh the benefits for a city like Boston?Read more »

Researchers to explore property tax, land value capture, and other land policy themes

July 13, 2018
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Six researchers will study some of today’s most pressing tax and land policy issues — from the economic effects of property tax limitations like Proposition 13 in California to the potential for land value capture in China — through the Lincoln Institute’s C. Lowell Harriss Dissertation Fellowship.Read more »

New England legislators and academics convene to explore solutions to state tax challenges

June 18, 2018
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From federal tax reform to the opioid crisis, powerful forces are leaving their mark on New England state economies and budgets, according to U.S. public finance experts, who spoke to legislators from five states in May at Economic Perspectives on State and Local Taxes, a Lincoln Institute...Read more »

How utilities are greening transmission corridors from Europe to South America

June 14, 2018
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Around the world, utilities are taking a more sustainable approach to managing vegetation and habitat below and alongside power lines.Read more »

Former Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr joins Lincoln Institute of Land Policy board

May 23, 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.Read more »

How planners can re-think public engagement

May 17, 2018
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As planners focus more on equity and inclusive economies, the pressure is on to conduct meaningful civic engagement in the communities most impacted by change.Read more »

How school funding in Arizona’s largest cities compares with other U.S. cities

May 16, 2018
By Andrew Reschovsky
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The Great Recession hit hard in Arizona and led to a substantial fall in state tax revenues. Unlike some other states, the state was unwilling to enact countercyclical tax policies to offset the decline in the state tax base.Read more »

Vacant properties plague struggling U.S. cities, according to new report

May 15, 2018
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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 new Lincoln Institute report.Read more »

Journalists Forum looks at the central role of land

May 11, 2018
Nearly 45 leading writers and editors came to Cambridge last month to consider the central role of land in addressing an array of socio-economic and environmental challenges at the 2018 Lincoln Institute Journalists Forum.Read more »

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