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October 2022Land Lines Magazine
Zoning reform is gaining momentum in the United States, as policy makers seek to advance affordability and address a legacy of spatial segregation by race and class.
How Scaling Up Could Help Combat Today’s Most Urgent Challenges
Critical threats like climate change and pandemics know no boundaries. The megaregion model offers a governing approach that can strengthen resilience, competitiveness, and equity at the local, regional, and national levels.
Highlights of the Lincoln Institute’s 2022 Journalists Forum
Thirty journalists on the climate beat came to the Lincoln Institute recently to consider global warming’s impact on land, whether through deforestation, inundation, or drought. The conclusion: new policies and practices in land use planning will be required.
A new Policy Focus Report from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy shows how local governments make land more valuable by building infrastructure and facilitating urban development, and how they can ensure that the community reaps the benefits.
How can infrastructure development stimulate economic growth, reduce poverty, and promote regional integration? The Lincoln Institute book "Infrastructure Economics and Policy: International Perspectives" explores this and other questions.
Produced annually, the 50-State Property Tax Comparison Study provides the nation’s most comprehensive analysis of local property tax rates by calculating the effective tax rate—the tax paid as a percentage of market value—for 74 large U.S. cities and municipalities.
