LVTShift

LVTShift is a toolkit for modeling Land Value Tax (LVT) shifts in counties across the United States. It provides utilities for fetching, processing, and analyzing parcel, tax, and census data, and includes examp!e workflows for real-world counties. LVTShift is created and maintained by the Center for Land Economics (landeconomics.org)

Features

• Fetch and join Census demographic and boundary data (census_utils.py)
• Model property tax and LVT scenarios (lvt_utils.py)
• Example: South Bend, IN analysis notebook (examples/southbend.ipynb)

Getting Started

1. Clone the repo:

   git clone https://github.com/YOURUSERNAME/LVTShift.git
   cd LVTShift

2. Install dependencies:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Explore the example notebook:

   cd examples
   jupyter notebook southbend.ipynb

File Structure