Amid a crisis in affordable housing, the century-old ideas of Henry George have gained a new currency. Tens of thousands of properties in Detroit sit unoccupied, many owned by absentee landlords and ...
I previously wrote columns about policies that could improve housing supply in Bloomington, and mentioned land value tax as a replacement for traditional property taxes. This idea was popularized by ...
“There’s no such thing as a good landlord” is a rallying cry of angry renters. In the future, it might be conventional morality that it’s simply wrong to own land. In our times, owning land seems as ...
The U. S. people may be suckers for free lunches and one-cent sales, but they do not go out of their way to get free education. Nor do they often work up an appetite for warmed-over ideas.
This is a community that fully embraces the Georgism (aka Geoism or the single tax movement) social philosophy and economic theory, and thinks it’s the way to create a solid foundation for a truly ...
In 1879 the American political economist Henry George proposed a policy to address economic inequality: Tax land—not what’s built on top of it. Tax a parking lot, a seven-story building, and a ...
Everyone deserves to have access to affordable housing. Unfortunately, in parts of the developed world, this isn’t the case. Housing prices are wildly out of control, interest rates are wild, and not ...