We can have one without the other
Denver is navigating a critical moment in housing and tax policy. Like many cities, the post-COVID period has seen widespread commercial & retail vacancies, rapidly-rising property values, and mounting pressure to build more housing. Because land value tax (LVT) can help solve all of these… Read More »Building Momentum for Land Value Tax in Colorado: An update from Denver
(This article was coauthored with Greg Miller, Executive Director of the Center for Land Economics.) While an increasing body of scholarship examines land value taxation (LVT) and Georgist economic principles, this field remains relatively underexplored relative to its theoretical significance. To support students and researchers… Read More »Advancing Land Value Taxation: Research Priorities for 2025 and Beyond
There is never a dull moment in South Korean politics. Six months ago, the conservative President Yoon Suk-yeol accused members of the National Assembly of being “despicable pro-North Korean anti-state forces,” declared martial law, and deployed the military to block representatives’ access to the Assembly… Read More »Did South Korea just elect a Georgist President?
How NYC’s tax mess overtaxes tenants & towers, and what to do about it. I’m sure that many of you, like me, spend much of your time thinking about what an ideal tax system would look like. Perhaps you fantasize about abolishing the income tax,… Read More »Footing the Bill: The Big Apple’s Property Tax Leviathan
This is the fourth piece in an ongoing series in which we explain how local housing costs cause homelessness, why solutions to homelessness should be funded from a land value tax, and the merits of redistributing land values through a universal basic income. Part 1:… Read More »Citywide Land Dividend: Can a LVT-funded UBI help solve homelessness?
This is the third piece in an ongoing series in which we explain how local housing costs cause homelessness, why solutions to homelessness should be funded from a land value tax, and the merits of redistributing land values through a universal basic income. Part 1:… Read More »Universal Land Dividend: Why Land Value Tax and a Universal Basic Income are even better together
Basic Income for the Homeless: Findings from Three Experiments What happens when you give cash to people who are experiencing homelessness? This is the second piece in an ongoing series in which we explain how local housing costs cause homelessness, why solutions to homelessness should… Read More »Basic Income for the Homeless: Findings from Three Experiments
Why solutions to homelessness should be funded by a tax on local land values. This is the first piece in an ongoing series in which we explain how local housing costs cause homelessness, why solutions to homelessness should be funded from a land value tax,… Read More »“In a good economy, homelessness goes up”: The Paradox of Progress and Poverty
This is the fifth piece in an ongoing series that examines the role that control of land has played in racial injustice throughout Black history in the United States: Part 1: Slaveholders and Land Monopoly (1619 to 1865)Part 2: 40 Acres and a Ghoul (1865… Read More »Land & Racial Injustice – Part 5: Reaping What Was Sowed
This is the fourth piece in an ongoing series that examines the role that control of land has played in racial injustice throughout Black history in the United States: Part 1: Slaveholders and Land Monopoly (1619 to 1865)Part 2: 40 Acres and a Ghoul (1865… Read More »Land & Racial Injustice – Part 4: The Invisible Hand of the Housing Market (1970 to Today)
