The Fair Housing Act—passed in 1967, just seven days after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.—sought to end discrimination in housing in the United States. But as the economic and social turbulence of 2020 has reminded us, the law’s provisions have not been enough to undo decades of policies and procedures that have essentially locked in residential segregation.
So says Lisa Rice, president and CEO of the National Fair Housing Alliance in Washington, DC, the latest guest on Land Matters, the podcast of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
“Communities have got to look at housing opportunities through a lens of race and racial equity,” Rice says. “You’ve got to take a look at what are the barriers that are precluding people from being able to access fair housing opportunities, and look at that very honestly.”
The deck has long been stacked against Black and brown people seeking safe and decent housing, Rice says. When the Civil War ended, a short-lived land redistribution program for formerly enslaved people gave way to local laws and restrictions that made it virtually impossible to own land and a home.
The Great Depression prompted another opportunity to expand homeownership opportunities, with the National Housing Act of 1934, the creation of the Federal Housing Administration, and the new availability of federally backed home financing. But those programs set in motion the color-coding, or redlining, of neighborhoods that continues to this day.
Understanding the long history of discriminatory housing policies in the United States can help us make sense of how housing has become an issue in this election year, Rice says, and is critical to making meaningful and lasting changes.
The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy invites proposals for studies on the barriers to implementing housing strategies at the scale needed to address the housing affordability crisis in the United States, and strategies to overcome those barriers.
The Lincoln Institute seeks to better understand how multipronged housing strategies, which include several policies working in tandem, can more effectively promote affordability and build community support for housing reforms.
Applications are due by email on or before September 30, 2020 by 11:59 p.m. (EST).
El curso explora las conexiones entre la planificación, la gestión del suelo y las políticas para la producción de vivienda nueva de interés social, identifica obstáculos y plantea alternativas basadas en la movilización de plusvalías. Se revisará el papel que juegan las normas de la planificación urbana, como las que establecen zonas destinadas a vivienda social o las que flexibilizan o aumentan las exigencias urbanísticas y constructivas y, también, la incidencia que tienen las políticas basadas en subsidios.
También se presentará un panorama de los instrumentos que han sido utilizados en algunas ciudades latinoamericanas. De esta manera, se espera que el estudiante comprenda la relación entre las políticas nacionales y municipales de vivienda, sus mecanismos financieros, y la generación y apropiación de plusvalías por parte de los agentes públicos y privados.
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En las últimas décadas los gobiernos en América Latina han implementado políticas de vivienda social centradas en el diseño de dispositivos financieros, como el acceso al crédito, los subsidios directos o los incentivos al sector de la construcción . El problema del acceso a suelo urbanizado de calidad ha tenido un peso menor. En muchos casos se ha asumido que es un problema que pueden resolver mejor los constructores privados y, en otros casos, las agencias públicas han recurrido a mecanismos convencionales de adquisición pública de suelo para desarrollar proyectos de mediana o gran escala. Estas políticas han privilegiado la construcción de vivienda social en zonas periféricas a pesar de que sus efectos sociales, financieros y ambientales no siempre son positivos.
Habitação, Uso do Solo, Políticas Públicas, Recuperação de Mais-Valias
Lincoln Institute Sessions at the 2020 IAAO Annual Conference
Agosto 30, 2020 - Setembro 1, 2020
Offered in inglês
Speakers: Paul Bidanset, Alan Dornfest, Daniel McMillen, Semida Munteanu, Ron Rakow, Jennifer Rearich
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The annual conference of the International Association of Assessing Officers (IAAO) offers state and local assessing officials the opportunity to hear varied perspectives on property tax issues from practitioners and valuation experts. This year, the Lincoln Institute will present three seminars for conference participants on current issues in valuation and property tax policy:
Property Tax Policy Research Tools, Methods and Resources
Assessing officers and their associations should act as an information resource to enable legislators and other policy makers to better understand the effects of proposed policy changes. This session will highlight how to find property tax policy information and provide examples of key system features in the U.S. and Canada.
Solutions for Estimating the Value of Land in a Large Urban Jurisdiction
Accurate measurement of land value is an important component of a sound assessment system, yet allocating the land portion of total property value is challenging in areas with few vacant land sales. This session will present new methods for estimating land values in a large urban jurisdiction.
The Use and Benefits of Automated Valuation Models: Results and Insights from the 2019 AVM Survey
In 2019, the IAAO in partnership with the Lincoln Institute, surveyed the IAAO membership on the use of Automated Valuation Models (AVMs) for the assessment of property. This presentation will reveal the results of the survey and provide insight into accuracy and efficiency of these valuation tools.
Estimativa, Desenvolvimento Econômico, Valor da Terra, Tributação Base Solo, Temas Legais, Governo Local, Saúde Fiscal Municipal, Tributação Imobiliária, Finanças Públicas, Tributação, Valoração, Tributação de Valores
The coronavirus pandemic and growing outrage about racial injustice have underscored the centrality of healthy, well-located, and affordable housing in society. The economic and racial disparities so starkly revealed in recent weeks and months have prompted a re-assessment of the overall approach to housing, what’s working and what needs to be changed.
“I hope that we are going to see some willingness to radically rethink things,” says Kim Vermeer, founder of Urban Habitat Initiatives and coauthor of a new book, Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing, speaking on the Land Matters podcast.
“The new awareness in the white world about structural racism and equity is going to mean that there will be a reframing of so many of the NIMBY (not in my backyard) issues that are keeping anything but single-family homes from being developed. For those who say don’t build here, this could become an opportunity.”
“Covid-19 has certainly put more wind in the sails of social housing policy, as well as more environmentally sustainable and livable design,” says Andre Leroux, executive director of the Massachusetts Smart Growth Alliance, who also joined the wide-ranging conversation about housing.
An added urgency is that some predict a wave of evictions when COVID-19 stimulus aid runs out and state and local governments potentially lift eviction moratoria.
The conversation highlights both near-term solutions and strategies to change the rules of the game so more housing can be built in the future—and how perceptions are evolving about cities, sustainability, and density.