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1. Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Local Economies

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Outubro 2009
   Rosalind H. Bark

   The Intermountain West is in the bull’s eye of climate change impacts in the United States. Climate change impacts will range from increased risk of droughts, floods and wildfires, landscape level...

2. Can Leasing Public Land Be An Alternative Source of Local Public Finance?

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Janeiro 1996
   Yu-Hung Hong

   Governments of some former socialist countries and the People’s Republic of China are thinking of leasing, instead of selling, public land. One objective of land leasing is to capture the...

3. Pension Legacy Costs and Local Government Finances

   Revista Land Lines
   Outubro 2012
   Richard F. Dye and Tracy M. Gordon

   Local government pensions are significantly underfunded because many governments have not set aside enough funds each year to cover the liabilities incurred. In effect, they are borrowing to pay for...

4. What the Housing Crisis Means for State and Local Governments

   Revista Land Lines
   Outubro 2010
   Kim Rueben and Serena Lei

   While the housing market and the economy are closely intertwined, the severe drop in state tax revenues can largely be attributed to the broader economic downturn, not the housing crisis specifically.

5. 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...

6. Local Government and Property Tax Reform in South Africa

   Revista Land Lines
   Maio 2000
   Riël C.D. Franzsen

   Since first holding democratic elections at the national and provincial levels in 1994, South Africa has undertaken far-reaching constitutional changes. Arguably, the most fundamental transformation...

7. Local Property Tax Reform

   Prospects and Politics
   Revista Land Lines
   Julho 1996
   Joan Youngman

   To what extent are problems of distressed urban areas attributable to the property tax, and how can changes in property taxation help remedy urban decline? Political leaders, policy analysts and...

8. Implementing Local Property Tax Reform in Brazil

   Revista Land Lines
   Janeiro 2011
   Omar Pinto Domingos

   The property tax reform in Belo Horizonte was guided by the dual desire to eliminate distortions in its antiquated model and to introduce a new fiscal culture to support a permanent process of...

9. Local Property Taxation

   An Assessment
   Revista Land Lines
   Maio 1999
   Wallace E. Oates

   The property tax is, in my view, a good local tax, though it is far from perfect. Relative to the other tax bases available to local government, I think the property tax gets high marks, in spite of...

10. From the House to the Ground: Insights Into the Challenges of Implementing State Housing Policies

    Outro
    Setembro 2023
    Jenny Schuetz, Julia Gill, Semida Munteanu, and Sydney Zelinka

    As housing affordability concerns increase, state legislatures are increasingly intent on implementing reform. New insights from a workshop held by the Lincoln Institute and Brookings Metro offer a look at the challenges and opportunities along the way.