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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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Common Ground MN – Land Value Tax: A promising land-use tool proposed for our communities
Our colleagues in Minneapolis are proposing legislation authorizing a targeted version of LVT. How about those incentives! Read more… Land…
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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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STRONG TOWNS: Non-Glamorous Gains – The Pennsylvania Land Tax Experiment
Did LVT help prevent blight in deindustrializing Pennsylvania cities? Take a look at this posting on the Strong Towns website……
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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: 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: Sustaining Mass Transit through Land Value Taxation? Prospects for Chicago
CTA stations add about $4 billion in residential property value to the City of Chicago. Capturing that added land value…
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ABSTRACTS: How to prevent Philly’s property-tax abatement from becoming a subsidy for the rich
Philadelphia’s property tax abatement program was envisioned as a come-on to get urban pioneers to invest in fringe neighborhoods. But…
