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January 2023Land Lines Magazine
A homestead exemption is a fiscally sound and equitable way to ease the property tax burden on residents.
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.
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.
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,...
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.
