Policy Focus Reports and Policy Briefs

Land Value Return

Tools to Finance Our Urban Future

Lourdes Germán and Allison Ehrich Bernstein

January 2020, English

Policy Brief

Value Capture

January 2020, English

Policy Brief

Value Capture

Inclusionary Housing

Creating and Maintaining Equitable Communities

Rick Jacobus

December 2019, English

Policy Brief

Housing, Local Government, Poverty and Inequality

December 2019, English

Policy Brief

Housing, Local Government, Poverty and Inequality

Planificación de escenarios

Aceptar la incertidumbre para tomar mejores decisiones

Robert Goodspeed

June 2019, Spanish

Policy Brief

City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Technology and Tools

June 2019, Spanish

Policy Brief

City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Technology and Tools

Photograph of several people standing around a table on which there is a colorful plan showing streets and buildings. Some of the people lean toward the surface of the table to place colored stickers on the plan. A laptop computer on the table shows another version of the plan.

Scenario Planning

Embracing Uncertainty to Make Better Decisions

Robert Goodspeed

March 2019, English

Policy Brief

City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Technology and Tools

March 2019, English

Policy Brief

City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Technology and Tools

Photograph shows the side of a blighted building on a city street with crumbling paint

Improving Tax Increment Financing (TIF) for Economic Development

David Merriman

February 2019, English

Policy Brief

Economic Development, Property Tax

February 2019, English

Policy Brief

Economic Development, Property Tax

Two houses stand side by side with green lawns in the foreground.

The Future of America’s Middle Neighborhoods

Setting the Stage for Revival

Alan Mallach

November 2018, English

Often overlooked, middle neighborhoods matter—both to the people who live in them and to their cities and regions—and solutions demand engagement not only from the neighborhood itself but also from the city, region, and state.

Policy Brief

Economic Development, Local Government, Poverty and Inequality, Public Finance

November 2018, English

Often overlooked, middle neighborhoods matter—both to the people who live in them and to their cities and regions—and solutions demand engagement not only from the neighborhood itself but also from the city, region, and state.

Policy Brief

Economic Development, Local Government, Poverty and Inequality, Public Finance

Improving Tax Increment Financing (TIF) for Economic Development

David Merriman

September 2018, English

Policy Focus Report

Economic Development, Property Tax, Public Finance, Value Capture

September 2018, English

Policy Focus Report

Economic Development, Property Tax, Public Finance, Value Capture

The Empty House Next Door

Understanding and Reducing Vacancy and Hypervacancy in the United States

Alan Mallach

May 2018, English

Policy Focus Report

Housing

May 2018, English

Policy Focus Report

Housing

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