Smart, Green & Growing Planning Guide outlines Maryland’s long-range, multi-agency initiative focused on protecting Maryland’s precious, yet limited, air, water and land resources in every region of the state. It’s time to move from 20 years of treading water to 20 years of cleaner water, healthier communities and more sustainable growth. Sound land use planning, from State smart growth programs to local government and citizen actions, is a critical piece in this Smart, Green & Growing strategy. Learn more.

Foreclosing the Dream provides an important discussion of why the housing and financial crisis occurred, including the financial manipulations that triggered the meltdown. National housing policies, presidential politics, household demographic changes, altered residential location preferences, and inter-local development competition were contributing causes. Understanding these multiple causes is the necessary foundation for designing public policies and plans that can revive housing markets, strengthen the national economy, and coordinate national, regional, and local policies to combat negative effects of climate change. Learn more.

Switching to a land value tax could results in a number of outcomes: including lower house prices, more improvements per acre of land, higher population density, more employment and higher wages, and less sprawl. Details and theory of land value tax are discussed in the new report Assessing the Theory and Practice of Land Value Taxation, published by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. Learn more.

Based on a unique combination of capital markets and sustainability knowledge, Value Beyond Cost Savings provides those with money the methods and practices necessary to assess the value and risk of sustainable property investment, while providing those seeking money an insider’s view on how capital providers value property and make investment decisions. Learn more.