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Composite Index of Local Fiscal Stability, Efficiency, Sustainability, and Livability
Central Eastern versus South Eastern European CountriesDocumentos de TrabalhoJaneiro 2022Aleksandra Maksimovska , Aleksandar Stojkov, Michal Radvan, and Tereza Rogic LugaricCitizen-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...
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El mercado informal de suelo en Bolivia
Prácticas y estrategias alrededor de la gestión de la tierra en áreas periféricas de CochabambaDocumentos de TrabalhoJaneiro 2022Juan E. Cabrera , Claudia Quintanilla , and Limbert CabreraAl 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...
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Recuperación de plusvalías en la mejora integral de barrios informales
Esquemas de financiamiento sosteniblesDocumentos de TrabalhoJaneiro 2022Marc Pérez Casas, Alfredo Stein Heinemann, and Marla Membreño FernándezLa 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...
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The Challenge of Unspent Federal Grants
Documentos de TrabalhoJaneiro 2022Jenna DeAngelo, Betsy Gardner, and George W. McCarthyThere 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...
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Confronting the Real Barriers to Housing Affordability
Using Research to Assemble Durable Coalitions and Expand Political CapacityDocumentos de TrabalhoDezembro 2021Benjamin Teresa, Kathryn Howell, and Leah DemarestThe 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...
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Effects of Reducing the Role of the Local Property Tax in Funding K-12 Education
Documentos de TrabalhoNovembro 2021Daphne Kenyon and Semida MunteanuBetween 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...
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A Reformer’s Guidebook to Zoning’s Knots
Approval Processes for Multi-Family Housing in Greater BostonDocumentos de TrabalhoOutubro 2021Amy DainLocal 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...
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Property Taxes
What Everybody Needs to KnowDocumentos de TrabalhoSetembro 2021Ronald C. FisherThe 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...
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The Evolution of a Land Trust
Placing Social Transformation at the Center of the Conservation EffortDocumentos de TrabalhoSetembro 2021Fernando Lloveras San MiguelThis 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...
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Mandating Access to Affordable Housing, City by City
Is France’s Fair-Share SRU Law a Model for U.S. Metropolitan Areas?Documentos de TrabalhoSetembro 2021Yonah FreemarkIn 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...
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