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  2. Federal lands - Wikipedia

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    As a result, Indian Country is "quasi-private, not public, land." [8] Nevertheless, "because the United States is a legal title holder, the federal government is a necessary part in all leases and dispositions of resources including trust land. For example, the secretary of the interior must approve any contract for payment or grant by an ...

  3. Public lands in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The lure of the land: A social history of the public lands from the Articles of Confederation to the New Deal (U of Nebraska Press, 1970) online; Gates, Paul Wallace. History of public land law development (US Government Printing Office, 1968). online; Hibbard, Benjamin Horace. A history of the public land policies (1924) online; Kammer, Sean.

  4. Privatization of public land (United States) - Wikipedia

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    In much of the west, public land is leased to ranchers as rangeland. [3] Throughout the mid-1900s, federal land managers reduced the number of livestock allowed to graze these lands in order to prevent ecological degradation through overgrazing. These reductions led to building tension between federal land managers and ranchers, who were ...

  5. Public housing - Wikipedia

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    Danchi (団地, literally "group land") is the Japanese word for a large cluster of apartment buildings or houses of a particular style and design, typically built as public housing by government authorities. The Japan Housing Corporation (JHC), now known as the Urban Renaissance Agency (UR), was founded in 1955.

  6. Public land state - Wikipedia

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    By contrast, a private land state (also called a non-public land state or a state land state) [1] is a U.S. state in which the federal government is not the original land-owner. [2] In public land states, the federal government owns a significant proportion of the state's public lands; in private land states, federal land holdings are generally ...

  7. Payment in lieu of taxes - Wikipedia

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    Under Public Law 94-565, enacted in 1976, the federal government began making payments in lieu of taxation to local governments affected by this reduction in their tax bases. In some states where land owned by colleges and universities is not subject to local property taxes, the state government reimburses the local governments for part of the ...

  8. China considers local government purchases of unsold homes ...

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    Local state-owned enterprises would be asked to help purchase unsold homes from distressed developers at steep discounts using loans provided by state banks, according to the report, adding that ...

  9. State ownership - Wikipedia

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    A house number plaque marking state property in Riga, Latvia. State ownership, also called public ownership or government ownership, is the ownership of an industry, asset, property, or enterprise by the national government of a country or state, or a public body representing a community, as opposed to an individual or private party. [1]