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New research published by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy shows how metropolitan regions can rebuild for greater resilience after major disasters, whether earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, or terrorists attacks.Read more »
Preliminary findings of a multi-year initiative to monitor urban expansion worldwide, shared at a global cities summit at the Venice Biennale, reveal that unplanned human settlement is consuming land at an alarming rate.
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Some of the nation’s top urban experts dug into the nitty-gritty of how to monitor progress on the ground this week at a roundtable discussion entitled, After Quito: Implementation of the New Urban Agenda Following Habitat III, co-hosted by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the...Read more »
From the effectiveness of California’s film tax credit to role of insurance in climate change resilience, recipients of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy’s C. Lowell Harriss Dissertation Fellowship will undertake a variety of research on the cutting edge of tax and land policy.Read more »
The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy has released the latest edition of its annual report on property tax rates in all 50 U.S. states, with a new analysis of how communities raise revenue to pay for basic public services.Read more »
The traditional cadastre – a public land registry typically used to track ownership and property taxation – is being reimagined throughout Latin America as a powerful tool to promote fiscal stability and guide urban planning initiatives, including building resilience in the face of climate...Read more »
All told, it will take about $1.5 billion to deal with the lead poisoning catastrophe in Flint, Michigan, about 3,000 times what it would have cost to employ safeguards that could have prevented the crisis in the first place, Congressman Dan Kildee said last month at the Lincoln Institute’s 2016...Read more »
Former Cleveland Mayor Jane L. Campbell and veteran Wall Street Journal journalist Constance Mitchell Ford have joined the Board of Directors of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
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Town managers, mayors, council members, and other municipal officials from all six New England states gathered this month at the Lincoln Institute to review the region’s economic outlook, learn from the fiscal challenges of San Bernardino and Baltimore, explore Boston’s fiscal and economic...Read more »
In the face of climate change, growing legal complexity and other challenges, the next generation of land conservation leaders will need to be even more nimble and energetic than the pioneers who built the land trust movement over the past few decades, conservation consultant and former Land Trust...Read more »
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