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For the first time since the end of the Great Recession, revenues increased in many of the largest U.S. cities in 2015, but they had not yet recovered to pre-recession levels, according to new data added to the Lincoln Institute’s Fiscally Standardized Cities (FiSC) database.Read more »
The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy unveiled the largest study to date of inclusionary housing – the policy where developers reserve a portion of new development as affordable – at Intersections 2017, the annual affordable housing conference of the Grounded Solutions Network, in Oakland,...Read more »
In a new policy brief, Lincoln Institute Research Fellow Andrew Reschovsky explains the importance of the property tax and proposes ways to improve its performance, ease the burden on taxpayers, and reform school funding to reduce disparities between school districts.Read more »
As the Gulf Coast surveys the damage from Hurricane Harvey, and Hurricane Irma barrels through the Caribbean and southern Florida, communities need to plan their recoveries carefully so they can emerge stronger and more resilient than before.Read more »
They conjure images of abandoned steel mills and factories, but from Gary, Indiana, to Lowell, Massachusetts, smaller post-industrial cities are taking strategic steps to regenerate.Read more »
The strategy spelled out in Rebooting New England may well serve as a model for infrastructure projects that will be sustainable, long-lasting, and have the greatest economic payoff in well-defined large regions.Read more »
Africa’s rapid growth and urbanization will require stable local governments to deliver goods and services to billions of people, and the continent can look to an underutilized source of revenue, the property tax, write the authors of a book published by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.Read more »
This is the second year of our campaign to promote municipal fiscal health as a foundation for better quality of life in cities, and since February we’ve held a series of workshops probing the far reaches of public finance.Read more »
In the face of earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, and the extreme weather impacts of climate change, communities need to plan ahead for their disaster recovery to ensure that they rebound and emerge stronger than before, according to a groundbreaking new book of in-depth case studies from six...Read more »
A new Working Paper by researcher Alan Mallach for the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy explores how state governments can support lasting and inclusive urban revitalization.Read more »
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