Land Matters

Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

A behind the scenes look at what makes cities tick. Whether financing infrastructure, adapting to climate change, or building more affordable housing, a big part of innovative solutions can be traced back to land.

  • 18 minutes 40 seconds
    Community Land Trusts: Housing Affordability That Lasts

    Community Land Trusts, where homebuyers purchase homes but not the land underneath, is an affordable housing solution that deserves more attention, say the authors of a new report that reveals the critical ingredients for success.

    17 December 2024, 12:59 am
  • 15 minutes 50 seconds
    Tishaura Jones, Winning St. Louis

    St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones talks about regeneration strategies for the Gateway to the West, a postindustrial legacy city trying to bounce back from manufacturing and population loss. The interview is the latest in the Lincoln Institute’s Mayor’s Desk series, highlighting municipal chief executives from around the world.

    3 October 2024, 1:22 am
  • 19 minutes 28 seconds
    Window on the World

    Technological advances in satellite imagery and data management have boosted the field of geospatial mapping, making it possible to show all kinds of land uses across parcels, blocks, neighborhoods and regions. Jeff Allenby at the Center for Geospatial Solutions explains how the tools are helping local decision-makers understand property ownership patterns and the potential for much-needed new housing.

    7 August 2024, 7:48 pm
  • 24 minutes 42 seconds
    Reclaiming Black-Owned Land

    As the US marks Juneteenth, self-described “death and dirt” attorney Mavis Gragg recounts efforts to secure title and reclaim legal ownership of Black-owned land, in the burgeoning field of heirs property.

    17 June 2024, 7:11 pm
  • 21 minutes 32 seconds
    The Hard-Charging Jacob Frey

    An interview with Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, who has led a pioneering zoning reform effort to increase housing supply, beginning with banning single-family-only zoning. As part of the “Mayor’s Desk” series of Q&A’s with municipal leaders, he also reflects on bike and bus lanes, regional governance, value capture for urban infill redevelopment, return to work, and the city’s infamous system of skyways.

    13 May 2024, 6:50 pm
  • 22 minutes 5 seconds
    Puzzling Out the Housing Crisis

    Highlights from the Lincoln Institute’s Journalists Forum: Innovations in Affordability reveal emerging solutions to the extraordinary challenge of the housing crisis—reforming statewide zoning to increase supply, outmaneuvering institutional investors, shifting the property tax to a land value tax, and changing the home financing system.

    16 April 2024, 3:10 pm
  • 36 minutes 11 seconds
    COP28 and the Future of the Planet

    An assessment of what was accomplished at the recent COP28 climate summit in Dubai, including more prominence for the critical issue of land use and cities, by four members of the Lincoln Institute staff who were there

    2 February 2024, 10:14 pm
  • 22 minutes 16 seconds
    Paige Cognetti and the Reinvention of Scranton

    Mayor Paige Cognetti is guiding the postindustrial reinvention of Scranton, a coal-mining crossroads in northeastern Pennsylvania that is President Biden’s hometown—and has gained notoriety as the setting for the TV comedy series “The Office.” 

    12 December 2023, 4:39 pm
  • 31 minutes 31 seconds
    Water in the West

    Jim Holway, who retired as director of the Babbitt Center for Land and Water Policy this summer, reflects on decades of trying to solve the puzzle of sustainable water resources in the West, and looks to what the future may hold.

    31 October 2023, 8:39 pm
  • 33 minutes 32 seconds
    Summer of Smoke and Swelter

    Record-breaking heat, out-of-control wildfires, and eye-stinging smoke have made the impacts of climate change inescapable for millions of people this summer. Containing the destructive fires is mostly a matter of land use management, says Canadian science journalist Ed Struzik.

    3 August 2023, 4:05 pm
  • 26 minutes 37 seconds
    Staying Calm and Planning On

    The job of the urban planner is getting tougher these days, as cities confront climate change and a shortage of affordable housing, amid increasingly divided constituencies. Veteran journalist Josh Stephens shares insights from his interviews for the book Planners Across America.

    7 June 2023, 2:47 pm
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