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1. Could Land-Based Financing Help Create Fiscal Space for Investment by Brazil’s Municipalities?

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Outubro 2016
   David Michael Vetter and Marcia Vetter

   Within a framework of tight fiscal controls and fiscal discipline, could Brazil’s municipalities generate fiscal space for investment and provision of social needs by increased use of land-...

2. Land Policies, Urban Law, and Climate Change

   Urban Taxation Measures to Address Climate Change Stage 2: Case Analysis
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Agosto 2023
   Melinda Maldonado, Safira de la Sala, Rachelle Alterman, Giovanni Andrés Pérez Macías, and Roberto Arazo Silva

   This document serves as a presentation of the second stage of research on Land Policies, Urban Planning Law, and Climate Change. In the first stage, we described a series of urban and taxation...

3. Urban Planning and Land Value Capture

   Case Study of Belo Horizonte, Brazil
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Janeiro 2023
   Maria Fernandes Caldas

   This case study reflects on the history and implementation of land value capture policies in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte, especially the use of the Outorga Onerosa do Direito de Construir (...

4. Using Green and Blue Infrastructure for Urban Flood Mitigation

   Simulating Scenarios for Climate Change, GBI Technologies, and Land Policy
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Agosto 2022
   Nilo Nascimento, Renan Pereira Almeida, Priscilla Moura, Talita Silva, Michelle Reboita, Wilson Fernandes, Deyvid Rosa, Pedro A. Patrício, Rafael A. S. Drumond, Kauê Melo, André Silva, and Christie Souza

   Technical approaches inspired by concepts such as green and blue infrastructure (GBI) may offer alternatives for urban adaptation to climate change with significant environmental and socioeconomic...

5. Climate Change Adaptation and Property Values

   A Survey of the Literature
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Agosto 2021
   Katherine A. Kiel

   This paper surveys the current literature of the impact of climate change adaptation on residential property values. Several categories of adaptation are considered including ecosystem management,...

6. Value Capture and the Role of Land in the Equality of Opportunities

   The Case of São Paulo, Brazil
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Maio 2021
   Ciro Biderman

   São Paulo has developed a unique instrument for capturing land value: charging for the right to build. This instrument has been evolving since mid-1970s and is now firmly established in the...

7. Santiago de Chile

   Breaking through Urban and Social Inequality with Inclusionary Housing
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Maio 2021
   Isabel Brain and Francisco Sabatini

   Chile’s housing policy has efficiently addressed the housing needs of the country’s most vulnerable populations; today, its housing deficit is the lowest in Latin America. The downside of...

8. The Statute of the Metropolis and Planning Reform in Brazil

   Analyzing Land Use Planning Practices and Metropolitan Land Conflicts
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Julho 2021
   Abigail Friendly and Felipe Francisco De Souza

   In 2015, Brazil enacted the Statute of the Metropolis (Federal Law No. 13,089) to regulate the establishment of metropolitan areas and regional public policies throughout the country. This research...

9. Status of a New Value Capture Tool in Mexico City

   El Sistema de Actuación por Cooperación
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Janeiro 2021
   David Leipziger

   Growing cities in Latin America are expanding their urban footprints at the expense of central cores. The result strains public resources, and local governments increasingly pursue strategies to...

10. Infrastructure Investment in a Messy Urban Growth Scenario

    The Role of Land Value Capture Instruments in Argentina
    Documentos de Trabalho
    Agosto 2020
    Cynthia Goytia and Marcela Cristini

    The objective of this study is to explore the feasibility of widening public funding of urban infrastructure investment using land value capture (LVC) tools in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (...