Affordable housing mediation

Fiscal decentralization and land policies

The study of fiscal decentralization has important policy implications for urban growth management, environmental conservation, and property taxation. Fiscal decentralization gives local governments powers to set local taxes and make local expenditures. In many countries local governments also ha...

Governing access to essential resources

This book argues that essential resources ought to be governed by a combination of Voice and Reflexivity: the ability of social groups to choose the rules by which they are governed and the opportunity to question one's own preferences in light of competing claims and to accommodate them in a col...

Land policies and their outcomes

In June 2006 the Lincoln Institute held the first in a series of land policy conferences to address international trends and issues. The goals of this conference were to raise awareness of the importance of land policy in shaping international urban development and to explore research topics in u...

Property rights and land policies

The Lincoln Institute’s third annual land policy conference explored the connections between property rights and land policies in developed and developing country contexts. The chapter authors discuss a range of topics including regulatory takings, the use of eminent domain and expropriation in l...

Reinventing development regulations

In this practical guide, two well-known experts argue that municipal leaders can dramatically improve the quality of life in their communities by adjusting local land use regulations. Barnett, one of the pioneers of the modern practice of city design, and Blaesser, a land use and real estate lawy...

Special districts

The bylaw state

Cities weaponize bylaws to manage, regulate, and police the mobility and conditions of unhoused people living in encampments amid a massive housing crisis.

The city–clt partnership

Based on a review of three dozen municipal programs and interviews with local officials and community land trusts (CLT) practitioners, this report describes how cities are investing in existing CLTs and starting new ones. It teaches community developers the mechanisms, methods, and model practice...

The community land trust reader

This compendium brings together seminal and historical texts that inspired and defined the community land trust (CLT). The collection also examines contemporary applications of the CLT to promote home ownership, spur community development, protect public investment, and capture land gains for the...

The tiebout model at fifty

This book commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Charles Tiebout’s enormously influential article, “A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures,” and honors the contributions of Wallace Oates as expositor and popularizer of the Tiebout model. While Tiebout holds the patent on the hyp...

This place, these people

A photographic and vernacular portrait of disappearing midwestern farm places.

Urban-suburban interdependencies

Experts in urban and regional planning, political science, economics, and related fields look at issues such as economic interdependencies, global competitiveness, and intergovernmental relationships to address how cities and their suburbs are dependent on each other. The chapters consider possib...

Using assisted negotiation to settle land use disputes