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Enacting Land Value Return in your hometown • A how-to guide for local activists
Enacting Land Value Return in your hometown
A how-to guide for local activists
progressandpoverty.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Enacting Land Value Return in your hometown • A how-to guide for local activists
One Year of Land Value Tax Advocacy • How you can support us on Giving Tuesday
One Year of Land Value Tax Advocacy
How you can support us on Giving Tuesday
progressandpoverty.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:32 PM
One Year of Land Value Tax Advocacy • How you can support us on Giving Tuesday
The Right-wing schism over property taxes • Youtubers, state senators, and the Charlie Kirk show go to war with the GOP establishment
The Right-wing schism over property taxes
Youtubers, state senators, and the Charlie Kirk show go to war with the GOP establishment
progressandpoverty.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The Right-wing schism over property taxes • Youtubers, state senators, and the Charlie Kirk show go to war with the GOP establishment
BOOM: LVT Candidates Get Elected - Landscape #5 • Mayoral candidates supporting LVT win in Seattle and Buffalo as LVT grows more mainstream.
BOOM: LVT Candidates Get Elected - Landscape #5
Mayoral candidates supporting LVT win in Seattle and Buffalo as LVT grows more mainstream.
progressandpoverty.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
BOOM: LVT Candidates Get Elected - Landscape #5 • Mayoral candidates supporting LVT win in Seattle and Buffalo as LVT grows more mainstream.
Book Review: The Land Trap by Mike Bird • Land is an even bigger deal than you thought
Book Review: The Land Trap by Mike Bird
Land is an even bigger deal than you thought
progressandpoverty.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Book Review: The Land Trap by Mike Bird • Land is an even bigger deal than you thought
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, Champion of the Landless • Mamdani won with the support of the tenant class. But should he control their rent? Or redistribute it?
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, Champion of the Landless
Mamdani won with the support of the tenant class. But should he control their rent? Or redistribute it?
progressandpoverty.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, Champion of the Landless • Mamdani won with the support of the tenant class. But should he control their rent? Or redistribute it?
Stop incentivizing surface parking lots • They are draining the economic potential of our cities. We need to make them financially unsustainable.
Stop incentivizing surface parking lots
They are draining the economic potential of our cities. We need to make them financially unsustainable.
progressandpoverty.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Stop incentivizing surface parking lots • They are draining the economic potential of our cities. We need to make them financially unsustainable.
A Georgist’s reflections on YIMBYtown • Georgism is where YIMBYism should go next.
A Georgist’s reflections on YIMBYtown
Georgism is where YIMBYism should go next.
progressandpoverty.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
A Georgist’s reflections on YIMBYtown • Georgism is where YIMBYism should go next.
Land value return is needed, pragmatic, and achievable • Video/transcript from the latest LVT Landscape LIVE event
Land value return is needed, pragmatic, and achievable
Video/transcript from the latest LVT Landscape LIVE event
progressandpoverty.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Land value return is needed, pragmatic, and achievable • Video/transcript from the latest LVT Landscape LIVE event
The Property Tax Patchwork Impeding Our Local Governments • Local governments keep cutting special deals creating inefficient systems. What does it say about property tax incentives?
The Property Tax Patchwork Impeding Our Local Governments
Local governments keep cutting special deals creating inefficient systems. What does it say about property tax incentives?
progressandpoverty.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The Property Tax Patchwork Impeding Our Local Governments • Local governments keep cutting special deals creating inefficient systems. What does it say about property tax incentives?
Valuing Land: The Simplest Viable Method • The least we can do to improve land valuation methodology right away
Valuing Land: The Simplest Viable Method
The least we can do to improve land valuation methodology right away
progressandpoverty.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Valuing Land: The Simplest Viable Method • The least we can do to improve land valuation methodology right away
So You Want to Abolish Property Taxes • Or: "how to not turn your red state into California"
So You Want to Abolish Property Taxes
Or: "how to not turn your red state into California"
progressandpoverty.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
So You Want to Abolish Property Taxes • Or: "how to not turn your red state into California"
What Baltimore’s assessments taught me about cities, data, and fairness • The importance of land banks, how should we value commercial land, and more takeaways from months in the weeds on Baltimore's assessments
What Baltimore’s assessments taught me about cities, data, and fairness
The importance of land banks, how should we value commercial land, and more takeaways from months in the weeds on Baltimore's assessments
progressandpoverty.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
What Baltimore’s assessments taught me about cities, data, and fairness • The importance of land banks, how should we value commercial land, and more takeaways from months in the weeds on Baltimore's assessments
The Landscape #4: Wins aren’t always legislative, though legislative wins are on the horizon • Maryland assessors will fix chronic undervaluation of land; jurisdictions consider land value taxes. Who will be the first mover?
The Landscape #4: Wins aren’t always legislative, though legislative wins are on the horizon
Maryland assessors will fix chronic undervaluation of land; jurisdictions consider land value taxes. Who will be the first mover?
progressandpoverty.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The Landscape #4: Wins aren’t always legislative, though legislative wins are on the horizon • Maryland assessors will fix chronic undervaluation of land; jurisdictions consider land value taxes. Who will be the first mover?
OpenAVMKit: a Free and Open Source mass appraisal library • You provide the data and the modeling decisions, we provide the tools
OpenAVMKit: a Free and Open Source mass appraisal library
You provide the data and the modeling decisions, we provide the tools
progressandpoverty.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
OpenAVMKit: a Free and Open Source mass appraisal library • You provide the data and the modeling decisions, we provide the tools
How Baltimore Assessments Accidentally Subsidize Blight—And How We Can Fix It • Baltimore systematically undervalues vacant lots by as much as half a billion dollars, a new Center for Land Economics report finds.
How Baltimore Assessments Accidentally Subsidize Blight—And How We Can Fix It
Baltimore systematically undervalues vacant lots by as much as half a billion dollars, a new Center for Land Economics report finds.
progressandpoverty.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
How Baltimore Assessments Accidentally Subsidize Blight—And How We Can Fix It • Baltimore systematically undervalues vacant lots by as much as half a billion dollars, a new Center for Land Economics report finds.
The curious case of Qingdao, China's land value tax • What we can learn from a German colony's LVT experiment
The curious case of Qingdao, China's land value tax
What we can learn from a German colony's LVT experiment
progressandpoverty.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The curious case of Qingdao, China's land value tax • What we can learn from a German colony's LVT experiment
DeSantis is Half-Right About Property Taxes • The Florida Governor is trying to undo Florida’s property taxes. Taxes on buildings are bad. Taxes on land are not.
DeSantis is Half-Right About Property Taxes
The Florida Governor is trying to undo Florida’s property taxes. Taxes on buildings are bad. Taxes on land are not.
progressandpoverty.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
DeSantis is Half-Right About Property Taxes • The Florida Governor is trying to undo Florida’s property taxes. Taxes on buildings are bad. Taxes on land are not.
What don’t we know about LVT? Research that could advance Georgism. • Reviewing the current state of research into land value taxes & cultivating future research
What don’t we know about LVT? Research that could advance Georgism.
Reviewing the current state of research into land value taxes & cultivating future research
progressandpoverty.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
What don’t we know about LVT? Research that could advance Georgism. • Reviewing the current state of research into land value taxes & cultivating future research
LVT Landscape #3: LVT Momentum is Worldwide • It's more than South Korea's new president supporting Land Value Tax.
LVT Landscape #3: LVT Momentum is Worldwide
It's more than South Korea's new president supporting Land Value Tax.
progressandpoverty.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
LVT Landscape #3: LVT Momentum is Worldwide • It's more than South Korea's new president supporting Land Value Tax.