Land Matters Podcast (Lincoln Institute)
The Lincoln Institute's policy-focused podcast on land use, taxation, housing, and urban economics, hosted by senior fellow and journalist Anthony Flint.
Summary
Land Matters is the podcast of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, hosted by the Institute's senior fellow Anthony Flint — a career journalist, contributing editor of the Institute's Land Lines magazine, and a correspondent for Bloomberg CityLab and The Boston Globe.[2] Billed as "a behind the scenes look at what makes cities tick," the show is released in seasons and covers land use, property and land taxation, housing affordability, climate resilience, and municipal finance through interviews with researchers and practitioners.[1]
Coverage
The Institute frames the podcast around the idea that "a big part of innovative solutions can be traced back to land," whether the subject is "financing infrastructure, adapting to climate change, or building more affordable housing."[1] Representative episodes span the Institute's research agenda — for example "Zoning and Its Discontents," "Talking Tech for Cities," "Building Vibrant Communities," and "Leader in a Land of Extremes" — touching land-based public finance, value capture, and the regeneration of post-industrial cities.[1]
Why It Matters
As the audio companion to the field's premier research institution, Land Matters offers a more policy- and evidence-oriented counterpart to advocacy podcasts — useful for the empirical, institutional side of land-value questions (assessment, value capture, municipal finance). It reflects the Lincoln Institute's measured, research-first approach, and functions here as a navigation source: the underlying studies its episodes draw on are cited on their own pages, not through the podcast.
Sources
- Land Matters podcast, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy — used for the podcast's tagline ("a behind the scenes look at what makes cities tick"), framing, and representative episode titles. Practitioner/navigation source, not primary evidence. lincolninst.edu/podcasts/land-matters
- "Anthony Flint," Lincoln Institute of Land Policy — used for the host's identity and role (senior fellow; Land Lines contributing editor; host of the Land Matters podcast; CityLab and Boston Globe correspondent). lincolninst.edu/about-lincoln-institute/people/anthony-flint