Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

The world is rapidly urbanizing, and experts predict that up to 80 percent of the population will live in cities by 2050. To accommodate that growth while ensuring quality of life for all residents,...

This report outlines the problems underlying the erosion of Detroit's property tax base--a factor that contributed to the city's bankruptcy in 2013. It offers recommendations for reform at the local...

Deemed "one of the best books of 2016" by the American Society of Landscape Architects' The Dirt, this illustrated collection of essays by leading international architects, landscape architects,...

This book by Daniel Cole and Elinor Ostrom, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics, shows how property rights systems affect the use of scarce natural resources. It is a rich source of...

This comprehensive report offers state trust land managers the latest strategies and tools for asset management, residential and commercial development, conservation use, and collaborative planning...

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...

Value capture refers to a type of public financing where increases in private land values generated by public investments are "captured" or recouped by the public sector, rather than by individuals,...