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1. Composite Index of Local Fiscal Stability, Efficiency, Sustainability, and Livability

   Central Eastern versus South Eastern European Countries
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Janeiro 2022
   Aleksandra Maksimovska , Aleksandar Stojkov, Michal Radvan, and Tereza Rogic Lugaric

   Citizen-centric local governance requires fiscally stable and efficient local governments that contribute to sustainable and livable communities. The central research objective herein is to provide...

2. El mercado informal de suelo en Bolivia

   Prácticas y estrategias alrededor de la gestión de la tierra en áreas periféricas de Cochabamba
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Janeiro 2022
   Juan E. Cabrera , Claudia Quintanilla , and Limbert Cabrera

   Al interior de los procesos de urbanización latinoamericana y su mercado informal de suelo, uno de los aspectos más relevantes, pero poco o nada estudiado, son las formas de financiaci...

3. Recuperación de plusvalías en la mejora integral de barrios informales

   Esquemas de financiamiento sostenibles
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Janeiro 2022
   Marc Pérez Casas, Alfredo Stein Heinemann, and Marla Membreño Fernández

   La provisión y mejora de servicios urbanos en los asentamientos informales de América Latina y el Caribe no ha sido enfrentada con esquemas de financiamiento sostenible. Los escasos...

4. The Challenge of Unspent Federal Grants

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Janeiro 2022
   Jenna DeAngelo, Betsy Gardner, and George W. McCarthy

   There is a fervent need for federal grant money to be spent appropriately and for its intended purpose. However, constrained local capacity coupled with longstanding, inflexible, federal legislation...

5. Confronting the Real Barriers to Housing Affordability

   Using Research to Assemble Durable Coalitions and Expand Political Capacity
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Dezembro 2021
   Benjamin Teresa, Kathryn Howell, and Leah Demarest

   The paper begins from the perspective that barriers to affordable housing are less about having good ideas but rather about how to enact policy changes. It focuses on the relationship between housing...

6. Effects of Reducing the Role of the Local Property Tax in Funding K-12 Education

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Novembro 2021
   Daphne Kenyon and Semida Munteanu

   Between 1989 and 2018, while national reliance on local property taxation to fund K-12 education remained quite stable, 24 states increased reliance on the local property tax, while 25 states...

7. A Reformer’s Guidebook to Zoning’s Knots

   Approval Processes for Multi-Family Housing in Greater Boston
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Outubro 2021
   Amy Dain

   Local permitting of residential construction in Boston’s suburbs has evolved, along a centurylong trend line, to be more flexible, political, complex, unpredictable, and ad hoc. The route to...

8. Property Taxes

   What Everybody Needs to Know
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Setembro 2021
   Ronald C. Fisher

   The property tax is the largest single source of revenue under the control of state or local governments in the United States. Property taxes provide a fundamental fiscal foundation for all types of...

9. The Evolution of a Land Trust

   Placing Social Transformation at the Center of the Conservation Effort
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Setembro 2021
   Fernando Lloveras San Miguel

   This narrative examines the evolution of a land trust, Para la Naturaleza (PLN) in Puerto Rico, as it navigated a vast array of challenges. These challenges led Para la Naturaleza to transform itself...

10. Mandating Access to Affordable Housing, City by City

    Is France’s Fair-Share SRU Law a Model for U.S. Metropolitan Areas?
    Documentos de Trabalho
    Setembro 2021
    Yonah Freemark

    In 2000, France’s legislature passed the Loi relative à la Solidarité et au renouvellement urbains (SRU) law, a housing affordability requirement for many municipalities across...