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GHOST HOUSES VANISH WHEN INCENTIVE TAXATION APPEARS
GHOST HOUSES VANISH WHEN INCENTIVE TAXATION APPEARS Common Ground OR/WA Spotlights Three Cases of Property Neglect, and how a Land…
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy – New Report: Taxing Land More Than Buildings Would Help Detroit Homeowners and Spur Development
New Report: Taxing Land More Than Buildings Would Help Detroit Homeowners and Spur Development By Will Jason, April 4, 2022 Reforming…
GentrificationHousingLand Value TaxationOregon VoicesResearch ReportsResourcesUncategorizedZoning and Land-UseRESEARCH: Opportunities for Portland to Expand Community Land Trust Housing
Tax Induced Opportunities for Expanding Community Land Trust Housing in Portland, Oregon by Tom Gihring | Mar 28, 2022 Consequences To Property Tax…
Brookings Institute: To improve housing affordability, we need better alignment of zoning, taxes, and subsidies
Fantastic report from the Brookings Institute. To improve housing affordability, we need better alignment of zoning, taxes, and subsidies By…
Critiques of the Property TaxHousingOriginal PapersResearchTax Increment FinancingTransitTransit-Oriented DevelopmentValue CaptureCGORWA Original Paper – Financing Transit-Oriented Development in Portland’s Light Rail Corridors: A Comparison of two Value Capture Mechanisms
Common Ground OR-WA Original Research Financing TOD in Portland’s Light Rail Corridors: A Comparison of two Value Capture Mechanisms Tom…
Critiques of the Property TaxDownloadable ContentHousingLand Value TaxationOriginal PapersResearchWorking PapersPRESENTATION: The Power of Land Value Taxation to Spur “Missing Middle” Housing
Presentation: The Power of Land Value Taxation to Spur “Missing Middle” Housing
Critiques of the Property TaxHousingLand Value TaxationResearchResearch ReportsWorking PapersZoning and Land-UseCGORWA Working Paper – Incentivizing Local Zoning Reforms with Land Value Taxation
Incentivizing Local Zoning Reforms with Land Value Taxation By Tom Gihring Common Ground – OR/WA Working Paper May 2021 Legalizing…
CGORWA Original Research – The Power of Land Value Taxation to Spur “Missing Middle” Housing
Common Ground OR-WA ORIGINAL RESEARCH The Power of Land Value Taxation to Spur “Missing Middle” Housing By Tom Gihring, May…
Northwest Economic Research Center – Land Value Tax Analysis: Simulating the Tax in Multnomah County
Northwest Economic Research Center Land Value Tax Analysis: Simulating the Tax in Multnomah County Peter Hulseman Portland State University Adam…
ORIGINAL PAPER – Public Banking Could Create An Opportunity to Advance Portland City’s Affordability Policies
Original Paper Public Banking Could Create An Opportunity to Advance Portland City’s Affordability Policies A Bank of Oregon Will Provide…
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RESEARCH: Study Completed on Land Value Tax
Study Completed on Land Value Tax The Portland State University Northwest Economic Research Center previously conducted two studies documenting gross…
Technical Summary Document of Land Value Tax Analysis: Simulating the effects in Multnomah County by the Northwest Economic Research Center
with Technical Summary Document of the Land Value Tax Analysis Simulating the effects in Multnomah County by the Northwest Economic…
TONY BLAIR INSTITUTE – Home Truths: A Progressive Vision of Housing Policy in the 21st Century
Home Truths: A Progressive Vision of Housing Policy in the 21st Century Report by David Adler, Research Fellow Tony Blair…
STUDY: Incentive Effects of Land Value Taxation in Metropolitan Portland Commercial Corridors
Incentive Effects of Land Value Taxation in Metropolitan Portland Commercial Corridors Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Working Paper 2005
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RESEARCH: Tax Shift Sequential to Land-Based Property Tax System in Salem, Oregon
Tax Shift Sequential to Land-Based Property Tax System in Salem, Oregon Tom Gihring, Ph.D. Housing & Planning Consultant Seattle, Washington…
ORIGINAL RESEARCH: How a Land Value Tax can stimulate investment in housing by Tom Gihring
Common Ground OR-WA ORIGINAL RESEARCH How a Land Value Tax Can Stimulate Investment in Housing By Tom Gihring February 2018…
The Real Causes of Home Price Inflation
The Real Causes of Home Price Inflation Tom Gihring Common Ground OR-WA Seattle, Washington November 2000 “A more effective way…
Take a Big Look at Incentive-Based Growth Management
Take a Big Look at Incentive-Based Growth Management Tom Gihring & Kris Nelson Oregon Planners’ Journal November/December 2008 Sorry,…
Financing Transit Station Improvements through Geo-Bonds
Financing Transit Station Improvements through Geo-Bonds Tom Gihring Common Ground OR/WA Seattle, Washington January 2000 “In Washington State, a unique…
Incentive Property Taxation Can Enhance Housing Affordability
Incentive Property Taxation Can Enhance Housing Affordability Tom Gihring Common Ground OR/WA Seattle, Washington May 1999 “An alternative method of…
Thomas A. Gihring, “Incentive Property Taxation: A Potential Tool for Urban Growth Management”, The Journal of the American Planning Association, Vol. 65, No. 1, Winter 1999, pp. 62-79.
Thomas Gihring and Kris Nelson, Tax Shift Sequential to a Land-Based Property Tax System in Salem, Oregon. (Portland, Oregon: The Geonomy Society), November, 1999.
James McIntire and Thomas Gihring, Equity, Land Use, and Resource Land Impacts of Land Value Taxation in Washington State, report prepared for the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, Mass., Feb., 1999.
Thomas A. Gihring, “Applying Value Capture in the Seattle Region”, Journal of Planning Practice & Research, Vol. 16, Nos. 3/4, 2001, pp. 307-320.
Thomas A. Gihring, The Value Capture Approach to Stimulating Transit Oriented Development and Financing Transit Station Area Improvements, working paper prepared for Futurewise, Seattle, WA., February 2009. (Paper appears on website of the Victoria Transportation Policy Institute: http://vtpi.org.)
Thomas A. Gihring, Implementing the Value Capture Approach to Financing Transit Oriented Development, working paper prepared for Toward a Just Metropolis: from crises to possibilities, Planners Network Conference, University of California, Berkeley, CA, June 16-20, 2010.
Thomas A. Gihring and Kris J. Nelson, Incentive Effects of Land Value Taxation in Metropolitan Portland Commercial Corridors. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Working Paper, 2005: https://commongroundorwa.org/incentive-effects-of-land-value-taxation-in-metropolitan-portland-commercial-corridors/
Tom Gihring and Kris Nelson, “Take a Big Look at Incentive-Based Growth Management”, Oregon Planners’ Journal, Nov./Dec. 2008; pp. 3-7.
Thomas Gihring, Financing Community Redevelopment through Land Value Increments: an alternative to TIF, working paper presented at Exploring Innovation: A Conference on Community Development Finance, Federal Reserve Bank, St. Louis, MO, May 2-4, 2007.
Jeffrey Smith and Thomas Gihring, “Financing Transit Systems through Value Capture: An Annotated Bibliography”, The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 65, No. 3, July 2006; pp. 751-786. (Article also appears on the Victoria Transportation Policy Institute – website: http://vtpi.org).
Jeffery J. Smith and Kris Nelson, Giving Life to the Property Tax Shift, // Society, December 1998.
Tom Gihring, Incentive Property Taxation in Vancouver, Washington, report prepared for the Public Finance Research Center, Schalkenbach Foundation, New York, NY, November, 1996.
Jeffrey J. Smith, Where a Tax Reform Has Worked: 28 Case Summaries, Geonomy Society, 2004. http://progress.org/geonomy
Tom Gihring, Kris Nelson, Oregon Planners' Journal November/December 2008
