By Matthew Downhour image: wikipedia St. Patrick’s Day The Great Famine, or Great Hunger, in Ireland, which afflicted its people from 1845-49, set off a cascade of Irish immigration to the United States that continued until well into the 20th century. While arriving in most… Read More »The Great Famine, or Great Hunger, in Ireland
Approximately half of the luxury-condo units that have come onto the market in the past five years are still unsold. January 16, 2020 Derek Thompson Staff writer at The Atlantic In Manhattan, the homeless shelters are full, and the luxury skyscrapers are vacant. Such is… Read More »Why Manhattan’s Skyscrapers Are Empty
By Divya Singh In recent decades, significant increases in the rent-to-income ratios have worsened the affordability of living in cities across the world. A widely promulgated solution is to build more housing in cities. But if there is an excessive demand for housing in cities,… Read More »Property Tax Incentives for New Housing Spurred Gentrification in New York City
September 26, 20192:12 PM ET Bill Chappell Twitter The gap between the richest and the poorest U.S. households is now the largest it’s been in the past 50 years — despite the median U.S. income hitting a new record in 2018, according to new data… Read More »U.S. Income Inequality Worsens, Widening To A New Gap
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
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
Photo by Alexa Gaul on Unsplash The 100 largest private landowners in the U.S. own 40 million acres—an area the size of Florida. By Dave Merrill, Devon Pendleton, Sophie Alexander, Jeremy C.F. Lin and Andre TartarSeptember 6, 2019 Jeff Bezos spent summers on his grandparents’… Read More »Here’s Who Owns the Most Land in America
By Nicolaus Tideman “The Henry George Theorem” is the name that economists have given to the postulate that, under certain circumstances, a public service will increase land rent[1] enough that, if the increase in land rent is collected as public revenue, this revenue will sufficient… Read More »The Henry George Theorem
Housing insecurity in the nation’s richest cities is far worse than government statistics claim. Just ask the Goodmans. By Brian Goldstone August 21, 2019 Photographs by Sheila Pree Bright for The New Republic Last August, Cokethia Goodman returned home from work to discover a typed… Read More »The New American Homeless
By EMILY BADGER and QUOCTRUNG BUIJUNE 18, 2019 Townhomes, duplexes and apartments are effectively banned in many neighborhoods. Now some communities regret it. Single-family zoning is practically gospel in America, embraced by homeowners and local governments to protect neighborhoods of tidy houses from denser development nearby. Residential land… Read More »Cities Start to Question an American Ideal: A House With a Yard on Every Lot
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