A Statement of Appropriate Private and Public Responses to Urban Housing Needs

Structural trends and deteriorating local housing conditions have left an increasing proportion of urban residents facing everyday adverse events or personal circumstances with inadequate support networks. The greying of America has also brought to the fore the special problems of the frail, low-income elderly. These so-called special needs populations find housing with difficulty or are forced into the ranks of the homeless

I Like To Pay Taxes: Taxpayer Support for Government Spending and the Efficiency of the Tax System

Why do people pay taxes? The simplest answer is that they have a legal obligation to do so. But it has long been recognized that this legal obligation alone provides an inadequate explanation for taxpaying behavior, just as legal obligations generally offer an inadequate explanation for most law-abiding activity.Another answer, then, is that some people pay taxes because – like Oliver Wendell Holmes – they like to do so. In other words, they appreciate that the government provides a vast array of public goods, such as rule of law, roads, schools, and aid to the poor, and find satisfaction in contributing to the public welfare. This Article is based on a simple proposition, which we believe but cannot prove: that our tax system will be more effective if taxpayers support the way their tax dollars are spent. We believe they are more likely to comply voluntarily and less likely to change their behavior to avoid tax. To show that our claim is plausible, we offer direct evidence from a literature involving experiments. We also draw on the more general economics and psychology literature on pro-social behavior – that is, the propensity to provide for public goods without any economic reason for doing so. In addition, we invoke philanthropy as a real world analogy, since charitable donors contribute money voluntarily (indeed, 2% of the U.S. gross domestic product (GDP)), largely because they support the way their contributions are used

Housing Receivership: Self-Help Neighborhood Revitalization

This Article examines the present application and potential of housing receivership

Planned Unit Development Legislation: A Summary of Neccessary Considerations

The object of this Article is to present some of the basic considerations which must be undertaken prior to developing a local planned unit development ordinance

LANDesign_Culture Design in the Cities of Aversa, Naples, Pompei, in David Listokin, International Historic Preservation__Planning and public policy program Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, March 27

This class will consider the subject of development and preservation in large cities (and other places) and will examine this interaction from an international perspective, considering case studies in the United States (with an emphasis on New York City) and Italy (with discussion of Naples and Pompeii). New York City has some of the leading cases in the United States of development triumphing over preservation (e.g., demolition of Penn Central Station) as well as opposite situations (e.g., preservation of Grand Central Station). The same is true in Italy, including Naples and Pompeii

I Like To Pay Taxes: Taxpayer Support for Government Spending and the Efficiency of the Tax System

Why do people pay taxes? The simplest answer is that they have a legal obligation to do so. But it has long been recognized that this legal obligation alone provides an inadequate explanation for taxpaying behavior, just as legal obligations generally offer an inadequate explanation for most law-abiding activity.Another answer, then, is that some people pay taxes because – like Oliver Wendell Holmes – they like to do so. In other words, they appreciate that the government provides a vast array of public goods, such as rule of law, roads, schools, and aid to the poor, and find satisfaction in contributing to the public welfare. This Article is based on a simple proposition, which we believe but cannot prove: that our tax system will be more effective if taxpayers support the way their tax dollars are spent. We believe they are more likely to comply voluntarily and less likely to change their behavior to avoid tax. To show that our claim is plausible, we offer direct evidence from a literature involving experiments. We also draw on the more general economics and psychology literature on pro-social behavior – that is, the propensity to provide for public goods without any economic reason for doing so. In addition, we invoke philanthropy as a real world analogy, since charitable donors contribute money voluntarily (indeed, 2% of the U.S. gross domestic product (GDP)), largely because they support the way their contributions are used