Land Lines January 2014
Features
How Three Communities Redressed Excess Development Entitlements
Partially built subdivisions and vacant lots are skewing development patterns and diminishing fiscal health in municipalities throughout the U.S. Intermountain West. Three communities successfully redesigned these excess development entitlements in their jurisdictions.
In Brazil, residential structures represent about one-third of total net fixed capital, so their value is important for economic and social policy. This report asks, what generates residential wealth in Rio de Janeiro? How much residential wealth is there? Who holds it? Where is it located?
Drawing on proprietary foreclosure data from RealtyTrac—which provides annual foreclosures by zip code for the period 2006 through 2011—this report is the first to examine the impacts of foreclosures on local government property tax values and revenues.
