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The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy will lead the conversation on land value capture, equitable investment, water sustainability, and planning for an uncertain future among many other topics at the American Planning Association’s National Planning Conference in New Orleans April 21-24, 2018.Read more »
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...Read more »
In the global project to reduce climate change, cleaner power plants, cars, and buildings receive much attention, and rightly so. But another, often-overlooked strategy holds great promise for reducing greenhouse gas pollution — land conservation.Read more »
David Colvill Lincoln, an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and civic leader whose vision and passion helped shape the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy into a globally recognized think tank and propel it into the 21st century, died at his home in Paradise Valley, Arizona, on March 16, 2018, after a...Read more »
In a growing number of states, big-box stores are working to reduce their property taxes by pursuing a “dark store” approach to valuation.Read more »
At its second Global Congress last month in Santiago Chile, the International Land Conservation Network convened 160 people from six continents to explore innovations in private land conservation policy, finance, management, and governance. Read more »
The Lincoln Institute 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.Read more »
The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy will join an expected 20,000 members of the public, private and civic sectors to explore how the world’s cities can grow equitably and sustainably as they add an estimated 2.5 billion people in the coming decades.Read more »
If all homeowners could pay their property taxes monthly rather than just once or twice per year, the fiscal health of local governments could improve and there would be greater political support for a fair and stable source of revenue. That's according to a new report authored by Lincoln...Read more »
An innovation in prevalent use in the U.S. and elsewhere in the world, community land trusts may help protect informal settlement communities from gentrification.Read more »
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