The urban way of life is en route towards completely new frontiers. Within the past two decades, slews of new cities have appeared out of what seems like thin air. Places facing rapid urbanization and population growth have expressed this trend the most. Master-planned cities… Read More »The Future of Architecture: 7 Master Plans That Rethink the Way Cities Work
The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation is pleased to announce the creation of the “Center for Property Tax Reform” (CPTR), a new, joint undertaking with our long-time collaborator, the Center for the Study of Economics (CSE) in Philadelphia. Those of you who know CSE, and its Executive… Read More »A Long-Time Partner, A New Partnership
The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation is pleased to announce the creation of the “Center for Property Tax Reform” (CPTR), a new, joint undertaking with our long-time collaborator, the Center for the Study of Economics (CSE) in Philadelphia. Those of you who know CSE, and its Executive… Read More »Introducing: The Center for Property Tax Reform
The Real News Network interviewed Josh Vincent, the Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Economics, and a long-time collaborator of RSF’s about the implications of implementing a Land Value Tax in the City of Baltimore. Watch this very well-done and informative interview… Read More »Can Land Value Tax Give Baltimore’s Neighborhoods Back To Their Residents?
By: Walter Rybeck Carl F. Shaw, a devoted Georgist, died on October 20, 2019, a month after turning 90. Born in Detroit, Carl F Shaw graduated from that city’s own Wayne State University with BA and MA degrees in Music Education. He taught music in public… Read More »Honoring a Friend and Colleague: Carl Shaw
By: Richard Florida The Great Housing Reset has led to growing numbers of single-family homes shifting from owner-occupied housing to investment vehicles for large corporations. When most people think of housing, they separate it into two types: single-family suburban homes that people own, and apartments,… Read More »How Housing Wealth Transferred From Families to Corporations
Allana Akhtar Oct 7, 2019 Top Image by sujin soman from Pixabay Automation and AI will disrupt — meaning kill or replace with lower-paying work — 4.5 million jobs held by African Americans by 2030, the consultancy McKinsey estimates. African American workers are at a… Read More »Artificial intelligence is slated to disrupt 4.5 million jobs for African Americans, who have a 10% greater likelihood of automation-based job loss than other workers
Photo by David Babayan on Unsplash Richard Florida Claire Tran “Plumbing poverty”—a lack of access to running water, a flush toilet, and an indoor bath or shower—is skewed across racial and socioeconomic lines. Across the United States, more than 460,000 households, or nearly 1.5 million people, lack a… Read More »Where Americans Lack Running Water, Mapped
In January of 2019, Thailand instituted a land and building tax. Two thirds of the thirty- three million property parcels had been appraised by mid-year, with the revenue intended to finance local (provincial) governments. Political pressures against the implementation of the tax, were intense in… Read More »Impacts of Land Taxes in Thailand
How Land Value Tax Could Narrow the Racial Wealth and Opportunity Gap “Protecting property values” was a canard used to justify racist housing policy in 1910, and continues to be an excuse used today. But what if property wasn’t privately owned? Jacqueline Luqman talks to… Read More »Real News Network Interview: Rich Nymoen on LVT
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