Policy Reports and Briefs

March 2026, English

The Lincoln Institute’s Planning in a Polycrisis Policy Briefoutlines strategies for integrating equity into climate and housing planning in five North American cities

March 2026, English

This report outlines strategies for integrating equity into climate and housing planning in five North American cities: Boston, Denver, Portland, Vancouver, and Washington, DC.

February 2026, English

The United States faces a severe shortage of affordable housing, placing increasing financial pressure on tenants and homeowners across the country. Yet nearly every community contains underutilized or vacant publicly owned land, and state and local governments should think creatively—and proactively—about how to use these parcels for more robust public purposes, especially housing.

November 2025, English

The Lincoln Institute produced a Policy Download that describes key features of states’ property tax rate limits, levy limits, assessment limits, revenue and expenditure limits, and Truth in Taxation policies across the US.

August 2025, Spanish

En este informe, se presentan actualizaciones acerca de alianzas entre los fideicomisos comunitarios de tierras (CLT, por su sigla en inglés) y gobiernos locales que trabajan para abordar la crisis de capacidad de pago de la vivienda.

June 2025, English

The Lincoln Institute’s Through the Roof Policy Brief examines the increasing housing cost burdens for US renters and highlights several policy principles for local policymakers to consider when navigating how to address the housing affordability crisis.

June 2025, Portuguese

June 2025, Portuguese