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1. The Property Tax-School Funding Dilemma

   Informes sobre Políticas Fundiárias
   Dezembro 2007
   Daphne A. Kenyon

   This report seeks to correct common misconceptions surrounding the practice of relying on the proprety tax to fund public schools. Through a comprehensive review of research and seven case studies,...

2. Message from the President

   Community Land Trusts
   Revista Land Lines
   Outubro 2007
   Gregory K. Ingram

   Community land trusts provide affordable housing by separating the value of land from the value of buildings. Households pay for only the building or dwelling unit, and the CLT retains ownership of...

3. Post-Apartheid Johannesburg

   A Work in Progress
   Revista Land Lines
   Outubro 2007
   Tracy Metz

   South Africa is reinventing itself as we speak—socially, politically, economically, racially. Will the “unfathomably peaceful” transition be strong enough to sustain South Africa...

4. Navigating State and Local Finance

   Revista Land Lines
   Outubro 2007
   Kim Rueben, Therese McGuire, and Susan Kellam

   Ensuring sufficient revenues going forward, as well as having the flexibility to revamp fiscal structures, will be important for state and local governments, especially due to growing future spending...

5. Impactos de las regulaciones en los precios de suelo no urbanizado

   El caso de estudio de Bogotá
   Revista Land Lines
   Outubro 2007
   Oscar Borrero Ochoa and Carlos Morales Schechinger

   Una versión más actualizada de este artículo está disponible como parte del capítulo 7 del CD-ROM Perspectivas urbanas: Temas críticos en políticas de suelo de América Latina. Las regulaciones...

6. Impacts of Regulations on Undeveloped Land Prices

   A Case Study of Bogota
   Revista Land Lines
   Outubro 2007
   Oscar Borrero Ochoa and Carlos Morales Schechinger

   One of the most important results of this study is that individual land prices tend to go down when regulatory charges are imposed. These charges are clearly not transferred to prices as erroneously...

7. Faculty Profile

   John Emmeus Davis
   Revista Land Lines
   Outubro 2007

   Faculty profile of John Emmeus Davis.

8. Land Lines, October 2007

   Revista Land Lines
   Outubro 2007
   Edited by Ann LeRoyer

   This issue hones in on socioeconomic conditions in post-Apartheid South Africa; strategies to improve U.S. state and local finances amid economic downturns; and the effects of urban land use...

9. Surprise!

   An Unintended Consequence of Assessment Limitations
   Revista Land Lines
   Julho 2007
   Richard F. Dye and Daniel P. McMillen

   Early experiences with assessment limitation measures reveal an unanticipated result: some property owners seemingly targeted to benefit from lower assessments may be harmed instead.

10. Report From the President

    Decentralization
    Revista Land Lines
    Julho 2007
    Gregory K. Ingram

    The Institute’s June 2007 Land Policy Conference focused on decentralization—the degree to which local and provincial governments exercise power, make decisions about their revenues and expenditures...