Land Lines July 2010
Features
We learn about the root causes of foreclosure by exploring how foreclosure rates vary across places and over time and examining two “triggers”—falling house prices and rising unemployment rates—that are associated with higher foreclosure rates.
The concept of tenure security can be viewed in three different ways: as a legal construct that often takes the form of title to property; as de facto security based on the actual situation; and as it is perceived by dwellers.
Over the past 30 years, the Lincoln Institute has sponsored the annual National Conference of State Tax Judges as a means of improving land-related tax policy as applied and interpreted by adjudication in tax courts and tax appeal tribunals.
