Or: "how to not turn your red state into California"| Progress and Poverty
The importance of land banks, how should we value commercial land, and more takeaways from months in the weeds on Baltimore's assessments| Progress and Poverty
Maryland assessors will fix chronic undervaluation of land; jurisdictions consider land value taxes. Who will be the first mover?| progressandpoverty.substack.com
Today we are launching OpenAVMKit, a new free and open source library for real estate mass appraisal.| progressandpoverty.substack.com
Baltimore systematically undervalues vacant lots by as much as half a billion dollars, a new Center for Land Economics report finds.| progressandpoverty.substack.com
What we can learn from a German colony's LVT experiment| Progress and Poverty
The Florida Governor is trying to undo Florida’s property taxes. Taxes on buildings are bad. Taxes on land are not.| progressandpoverty.substack.com
Reviewing the current state of research into land value taxes & cultivating future research| Progress and Poverty
The #1 thing every assessor can do to get better results right away| progressandpoverty.substack.com
It's more than South Korea's new president supporting Land Value Tax.| Progress and Poverty
Humility is the soil in which the movement sprouts anew| Progress and Poverty
We'll take what we can get!| progressandpoverty.substack.com
A step-by-step guide on modeling land value taxes. Launching an open-source library to make LVT modeling more accessible.| progressandpoverty.substack.com
The lost art of the "Somers System" of land valuation| Progress and Poverty
Amidst budget reconciliation efforts, a "midnight amendment" aims to auction off hundreds of thousands of acres of public land, prompting a bipartisan pushback.| progressandpoverty.substack.com
Case studies from South Bend and Princeton examine the impact of shifting taxes from buildings to land. The shift would drive development, promote equity, and capture community value.| Progress and Poverty
Let's not stress ourselves, most states do not require a constitutional amendment to implement land value taxes.| Progress and Poverty
Redfin's chief economist memoir/self help book| progressandpoverty.substack.com
A bill passes a state senate! And, more media coverage and interest grows for land value taxes.| Progress and Poverty
How NYC's tax mess overtaxes tenants & towers, and what to do about it.| progressandpoverty.substack.com
A Cleveland mayor from the Gilded Age shows how to synthesize two clashing movements| progressandpoverty.substack.com
How are property tax assessments calculated, and how can we know if they're fair? Let's find out!| progressandpoverty.substack.com
Disputes over post-colonial land ownership have riven South African politics for decades. Georgism provides the only productive way forward.| progressandpoverty.substack.com