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[meme] And lots of public transit investment (lemmy.world)

[article] A 19th-Century Property Tax Idea Is Back. Can It Revive a Blighted City? (www.governing.com)

The Georgists advocated shifting the tax burden from buildings to land. Today that would face major political hurdles, but there might be variations on the concept that could spur housing development and discourage land speculators.

[image] Space used for cars in downtown Houston (lemmy.world)

[meme] Landlords (midwest.social)

[blog] Fuck parking lots (article title: Evaluating a Land Value Tax in Jersey City) (www.andrewalexanderprice.com)

[article] Australian housing wealth is meaningless, destructive and fundamentally changing our society | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

This op-ed details how housing has gotten faaaar more expensive over the past several decades but without corresponding wage growth, leaving it increasingly unaffordable. The author (correctly) argues that this is due to the rising land values, which does not represent true wealth creation and is rather simply a vehicle for...

[article] The ‘Georgists’ Are Out There, and They Want to Tax Your Land | New York Times (www.nytimes.com)

Non-paywall link: archive.is/umP8D...

[video] The Power of Land: Georgism 101 | BritMonkey (youtu.be)

This video by BritMonkey gives an introduction to Georgism and the importance of land value taxation.

[video] How tech giants have turned themselves into digital landlords | original title: "The Economics of Programming Languages" (youtu.be)

I was watching this talk while rebuilding a big docker container at work, and it gave a surprise shout-out to Henry George’s Progress and Poverty, in the context of how Google and other tech “platforms” have turned themselves into digital landlords.

[image] Even 100 years ago they knew land hoarding and speculation was a problem (lemmy.world)

Image transcript:...

[article] Detroit wants to be the first big American city to tax land value (www.economist.com)

cross-posted from: kbin.social/m/Neoliberal/t/524431...

[video] How Our Property Tax System Robs the Poor to Pay the Wealthy | Strong Towns (youtu.be)

TL;DW: This video goes into how a broken property tax assessment system has resulted in systemic over-assessment and over-taxing of properties in poor neighborhoods and under-assessment and under-taxing of properties in wealthy neighborhoods.

[article] Land value tax could make housing more affordable | Toronto Star (www.thestar.com)

[blog] Housing Is a Labor Issue (www.hamiltonnolan.com)

[article] Ten years ago Canada stole the American dream. Now the U.S. is taking it back. (www.thestar.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/3982249...

[article] Canada likely sitting on the largest housing bubble of all time: Strategist (www.bnnbloomberg.ca)

[video] Thank You From a Land Speculator | Strong Towns (youtu.be)

[image] Cincinnati before and after the freeway (lemmy.world)

[meme] paying your landlord be like: (lemmy.world)

[meme] landlords (lemmy.world)

[video] I found the least bad way to tax (redirect.invidious.io)

A classic video from Mr. Beat

[meme] Pave paradise to put up a parking lot (lemmy.world)

[meme] Mmm talk to me about taxes, baby (lemmy.world)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax

[article] The case for shifting taxes onto land (cepr.org)

Land’s share in economies’ nonfinancial assets equals between 40% and 60%, and in the US currently equals over 50%. This constitutes a very large base for a non-distortionary tax. This column suggests that a 5-percentage point or larger increase in the tax rate on the value of US land, excluding buildings and equipment...

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