Publicações

Julho 2010, inglês

Planning and land policy experts recognize the need for timely and accurate information about how to take account of likely, if uncertain, environmental and climate change impacts on global land use and development patterns. The Lincoln Institute’s fifth annual land policy conference in May 2010 addressed the status of many of these issues currently and […]

Julho 2010, inglês

Until recently, a foreclosure on an owner-occupied home in the United States was a relatively rare event. According to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), foreclosure proceedings were initiated on approximately 0.3 percent of all owner-occupied housing units with a mortgage in each quarter from 1979:Q1 through 2006:Q2 (figure 1). Since mid-year 2006, foreclosure […]

Julho 2010, espanhol

¿Cómo se correlacionan las percepciones de los moradores de asentamientos informales sobre la seguridad de la tenencia con las decisiones de invertir en mejoras para sus viviendas? ¿Es necesario poseer un título de propiedad para sentirse seguro o aumentar la inversión? ¿Y cómo se relacionan los ingresos y el crédito con la inversión? ¿El morador […]

Julho 2010, inglês

How do the perceptions of informal settlement dwellers on tenure security translate into investment in housing improvement? Is a property title necessary to establish security or increase investment? And how are income and credit related to investment? Does the average dweller actually aspire to legalization of tenure, and if so, what is expected? Based on […]

Julho 2010, inglês

Daniel McMillen has a joint appointment in the Department of Economics and the Institute of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois. He is also a visiting fellow in the Department of Valuation and Taxation at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. Before moving to Urbana-Champaign, he was a member of the economics […]