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1. Equitably Developing America's Smaller Legacy Cities

   Investing in Residents from South Bend to Worcester
   Policy Focus Reports
   May 2021
   Erica Spaid Patras, Alison Goebel, and Lindsey Elam

   “The strategies outlined in Equitably Developing America’s Smaller Legacy Cities will be vital in rebuilding more racially and economically equitable legacy cities. Every municipal leader...

2. Property Tax Relief for Homeowners

   Policy Focus Reports
   October 2021
   By Adam Langley and Joan Youngman

   Note: This report is now available for pre-order and will be published in October 2021. “This expert, concise report provides the most up-to-date offering of property tax relief options, easy...

3. Through the Roof

   What Communities Can Do About the High Cost of Rental Housing in America
   Policy Focus Reports
   March 2021
   Ingrid Gould Ellen, Jeffrey Lubell, and Mark A. Willis

   “Through the Roof is a ray of light in dark times. Housing has always been at the center of economic and racial inequality in our nation, and it must be at the center of creating real...

4. How to Use Exploratory Scenario Planning (XSP)

   Navigating an Uncertain Future
   Policy Focus Reports
   August 2020
   Jeremy Stapleton

   “This essential tool for planners and policy makers will encourage replication of exploratory scenario planning processes in many more communities.” — Jennifer Minner, Associate...

5. Contribución de mejoras en América Latina

   Experiencias, desafíos y oportunidades
   Policy Focus Reports
   July 2020
   Óscar Armando Borrero Ochoa and Julieth Katterine Rojas Ruiz

   This Spanish-language report summarizes a series of studies on the experience of Latin American jurisdictions in the use of betterment contributions as a public financing strategy, including legal...

6. Improving Tax Increment Financing (TIF) for Economic Development

   Policy Focus Reports
   September 2018
   David Merriman

   “This report will be the ‘go-to’ resource for public policy practitioners, municipal officials, and worldwide local development officers for two reasons. First, it is written by a...

7. The Empty House Next Door

   Understanding and Reducing Vacancy and Hypervacancy in the United States
   Policy Focus Reports
   May 2018
   Alan Mallach

   “Alan Mallach is the sage of the national vacant properties movement. There is no one better qualified to tell the story of vacant property trends, impacts, and strategies through data and...

8. Revitalizing America’s Smaller Legacy Cities

   Strategies for Postindustrial Success from Gary to Lowell
   Policy Focus Reports
   August 2017
   Torey Hollingsworth and Alison Goebel

   “The Revitalizing America's Smaller Legacy Cities: Strategies for Postindustrial Success from Gary to Lowell report has been a great resource I have used throughout the process of forming a...

9. Para leer el suelo urbano

   Catastros multifinalitarios para la planificación y el desarrollo de las ciudades de América Latina
   Policy Focus Reports
   January 2017
   Diego Alfonso Erba and Mario Andrés Piumetto

   In Latin America, a territorial cadastre is a public registry that manages information relating to parcels of land. As an institution, the cadastre is common in many countries, although it does not...

10. Buy-In for Buyouts

    The Case for Managed Retreat from Flood Zones
    Policy Focus Reports
    September 2016
    Robert Freudenberg, Ellis Calvin, Laura Tolkoff, and Dare Brawley

    This report offers policy recommendations to increase participation in buyout programs and to make them more effective tools for building resilience in coastal communities. Based on a study of...