Background Massachusetts is a small state, but it has 351 cities and towns. The large number of jurisdictions grants the state its incredible civic diversity, ranging from rural villages to small towns, to beach towns, to metropolises. But the multiplicity of jurisdictions also results in an extremely tricky coordination problem: Read more…
In October of 2020, the City of New Orleans considered an ordinance that would required affordable housing in its core districts, including the French Quarter. To assess the economic effects of this reform, both on affordable housing in the city and also on the city’s fiscal outlook, I took a Read more…
Making cross-cutting comparisons of city revenues and expenditures can be complicated. Every person in the United States lives under overlapping boundaries of local governments, all of which have the ability to spend money and many of which have the ability to tax. For example, I used to live in Chelsea, Read more…
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