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)
This is the third 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 3: Homeownership: White Subsidy, Black Exclusion (1910 to 1970)
This is the second 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 2: 40 Acres and a Ghoul (1865 to 1910)
This is the first 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) 👈 (you are here)Part 2: 40 Acres… Read More »Land & Racial Injustice – Part 1: Slaveholders and Land Monopoly (1619 to 1865)
With so many cities grappling with rising rents, insufficient supply of new housing and widening inequality, many are starting to consider the ways in which these challenges could be mitigated by shifting the tax base onto land values. In a previous blog post, we explained… Read More »How does a land value tax shift work in practice?
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