Land Lines January 2008
Features
Within the next ten years, North American cities will have to respond to what Al Gore has called a “planetary emergency.” The Lincoln Institute intends to play a strategic role in convening experts and helping to align otherwise separate initiatives.
Disparities in property tax revenue due to growing gaps in assessed property values between wealthy, fast-growing communities and older industrial cities can lead to uneven development, where the rich communities become even richer and the poor even poorer.
How Important is Hukou?
Understanding the causes of migrant housing outcomes is important because low housing quality is a genuine problem in need of policy attention; policy prescriptions to address hukou-based housing inequality are not the same as those to remedy other housing issues.
