Current Quarterly Issue:
January 2023Land Lines Magazine
By Jon Gorey, December 6, 2022
A homestead exemption is a fiscally sound and equitable way to ease the property tax burden on residents.
By Anthony Flint, December 23, 2022
Communities across the United States have used local zoning to regulate land use for the last century. But critics on both sides of the aisle say this planning approach has caused social, economic, and environmental harm—and now some states are introducing changes.
By Jon Gorey, December 12, 2022
As the housing crisis spreads from coastal cities to middle America, manufactured housing is increasingly drawing attention as an affordable, sustainable option. The national I’m HOME network, now convened by the Lincoln Institute, is taking steps to make the sector even stronger.
By Loren Berlin, December 23, 2022
Institutional investors have been scooping up real estate in Cincinnati, then raising the rent for increasingly neglected properties. So the metro area’s economic development agency stepped in, buying nearly 200 houses as part of an ambitious effort to increase stability, preserve affordability,...
By Anthony Flint, December 12, 2022
The mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone, Yvonne Aki-Sawyer, discusses appointing Africa’s first chief heat officer, fighting climate change with land use planning, and overhauling the property tax system to ensure fiscal sustinability.
By Rob Walker, March 16, 2023
By Heather Hansman, March 21, 2023
By Jon Gorey, February 17, 2023
By Amanda Abrams, February 17, 2023