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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…
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ABSTRACTS: Homelessness in Oregon
The newest report on homelessness in Oregon includes several recommendations to boost housing production. One of these is a split-rate…
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ABSTRACTS: Changing the story of Residential Vacancies in Victoria
Widespread speculative residential vacancies — Is the problem rooted in land supply? Is the solution a vacancy tax? Prosper Australia…
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ABSTRACTS: A Land Value Capture Tax Allows Us to Dream Big & Could Inclusionary Housing Break the YIMBY Deadlock?
Two Vancouver BC city councilors are campaigning on their preference for a citywide land value tax. They clearly understand that…
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ABSTRACTS: Land Windfall Tax Bill To Be Launched
Vancouver BC and Thailand are both proposing a “windfall tax” on land near transit stations to capture the rise in…
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ABSTRACTS: Real estate ‘windfall’ tax would curb speculation and gentrification in Vancouver, OneCity says
Real estate ‘windfall’ tax would curb speculation and gentrification in Vancouver, OneCity says By Jen St. Denis Star Metro Vancouver…
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ABSTRACTS: More Calls to Repeal or Reform Oregon’s Property Tax System
Here are more calls to repeal or reform rigid, formulaic property tax limits like those embedded in Oregon’s state constitution.…
