By Vernon K. Walker Have you ever noticed an abandoned home or a dilapidated commercial building in your neighborhood? Most cities in the United States are riddled with properties that land speculators are holding until their value increases. It is the people who live in… Read More »Land Valuation Tax Advocacy Efforts in Minnesota
Taxes influence behavior. When you tax cigarettes and alcohol, people are less likely to buy them. When you tax property and buildings, people are less likely to invest in improving current properties and developing new ones. This leads to run-down buildings, empty lots and underutilized… Read More »How Land Value Taxes Could Promote Fairer Taxes
Jonathan Lamb (PhD candidate, Pardee RAND Graduate School) Motivations Can land use incentives stimulate more livable, equitable, and sustainable cities, and how do they compare to “top-down” design and planning? Land value taxation (LVT) has enjoyed renewed mainstream attention in recent years, through discussions in… Read More »Ground Rules: Land Use Incentives for Inclusive and Sustainable Cities
In recent years, cities around the U.S. have been grappling with a crisis in housing supply and affordability due a multitude of challenges, including rising costs and barriers to developing more housing. Innovative solutions and models of taxation such as land value taxes and collective… Read More »An Explainer and Case Study on Municipal Land Trusts featuring the Upper Harbor Redevelopment in Minneapolis, Minnesota
It’s a tough time to be a home buyer in today’s housing market. Housing shortages continue, and interest rates on mortgages are about double what they were two years ago. In June 2024, the average was 6.95% for a 30-year fixed mortgage and 6.17% for… Read More »Land Value Tax and Mortgages
Taxes influence behavior. When you tax cigarettes and alcohol, people are less likely to buy them. When you tax property and buildings, people are less likely to invest in improving current properties and developing new ones. This leads to run-down buildings, empty lots and underutilized… Read More »How Land Value Taxes Could Promote Fairer Taxes
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
