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ABSTRACTS: As California Rents Rise, Where to Live Becomes Monthly Guessing Game
California’s severe housing shortage is driving up rents, leaving many lower-income families struggling to stay in neighborhoods they once could…
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ABSTRACTS: Property Tax Incentives for New Housing Spurred Gentrification in New York City
In New York City, spillover effects from localized new housing construction driven by tax breaks for developers include higher rents…
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ABSTRACTS: Location, Location, Location? For Rents and Home Prices, It’s Now Transit, Transit, Transit
You’ve heard the real estate investment mantra: “location, location, location,” now it’s “transit, transit, transit,” read more about transit’s contribution…
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ABSTRACTS: Tax breaks for gentrifiers – How a 1990s property tax revolt has skewed the Portland-area tax burden
How the 1990’s Oregon property tax revolt resulted in skewed tax burdens is by now well documented. This Oregonian editorial…
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ABSTRACTS: As Newark Rises, Could Black Residents Be Pushed Out?
As Newark, NJ embarks on ambitious redevelopment schemes, some are expressing concern that the projects will cater to wealthy newcomers…
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ABSTRACTS: Will Banning Single-Family Zoning Make for More Affordable Homes?
Minneapolis, and now Oregon cities are banning exclusive single-family zoning. Now, we’re asking: will smaller multifamily housing types lead to…
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ABSTRACTS: Leaning on the Land
Millbourne is one of several Pennsylvania cities that changed from and equal rate property tax to a land value tax.…
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ABSTRACTS: Subsidies meant for low-income communities are paying for luxury developments
This press report is the latest of a long series of critiques illustrating the abusive use of TIF (tax increment…
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ABSTRACTS: Up-zoning Chicago – Impacts of a Zoning Reform on Property Values and Housing Construction
A recent study of up-zonings in Chicago showed that… allowing higher densities increases the market price of existing housing units…