Progress and Poverty
Progress & Poverty, Jeff Fong, Lars Doucet, Stephen Hoskins, Martin Jacobson, Greg MillerExploring the implications of Georgism in the modern world. Brought to you by the Center for Land Economics
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How replacing council tax with a flat land value tax would affect households in the UK
Guest post from Vahid Ahmadi and Max Ghenis of PolicyEngine
We used PolicyEngine UK, our open-source model of the UK tax-and-benefit system, to ask a question: what would happen if Britain scrapped council tax and replaced it with a fl...
Yes, a Land Value Tax Is Possible in Washington State
People fill the streets of downtown Spokane, Washington, at the end of the annual Bloomsday Run in May 2025, with Riverfront Park in the distance. A new report finds that Spokane could spur more homebuilding and new businesses and discourag...
Contra Watling on "The failure of the land value tax"
Andy Burnham, mayor of Greater Manchester and widely seen as a potential challenger to PM Keir Starmer from within the Labour party, has been making a lot of noise lately about how land in the UK is significantly “undertaxed,” thereby bring...
Property Taxes are Not Land Value Taxes
LVT Landscape Live
In the last six months, Kentucky and Virginia passed LVT enabling legislation. And local governments are actively looking into implementation.
Join us June 3rd at 7PM ET for a webinar with the folks introducing,...
Don’t Reject Data Centers. Negotiate Harder.
First, a couple points of housekeeping
- Tomorrow (Thursday May 7th), Jeff Fong, YIMBY Action Board Member and Urban Proxima writer, will be live on Substack with Ron Davis at 7PM. Ron is based in Washington State and has played a large...
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Your friendly neighborhood Georgist. Managing editor, Progress & Poverty, President, Young Georgists of America.
Cities, technology, and the future | Board Chair @ YIMBY Action, Board Advisor @ the Center for Land Economics
Policy analyst, former game designer | landeconomics.org | Personal blog at fortressofdoors.com
Urban economist interested in sharing land rents, efficient & equitable housing markets, urbanism and economic geography.
I am a political theorist at Uppsala University. My main research interest is the normative and economic theory Geoism.
Land is a Big Deal | landeconomics.org.
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