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2026 44

  1. Florida Property Tax Cuts Aren’t Free
  2. Local Democracy’s Business Model is Broken
  3. Is land supply fixed? Part 2: A parable of pencils and parcels
  4. Is land supply fixed? Part 1: The Netherlands and land reclamation
  5. Welcoming Jeff Fong
  6. Does Georgism Work? Five Years Later
  7. How Texas’s "Secret Tax" Hurts Taxpayers
  8. Why do people hold vacant land out of use?
  9. Property tax reform takes center stage — Landscape 10
  10. Low property taxes freeze the youth out of the economy
  11. Is AI like Petroleum, or like Pens?
  12. More disasters are coming. How should cities respond?
  13. DALT: Depreciation-Assisted Land Value Tax
  14. New UK Prime Minister Supports Land Value Tax. What’s Next?
  15. An LVT Shift is a net winner for homeowners in Cincinnati
  16. Land Value Capture in Practice: Reflections on Ethiopia’s Urban Land Lease System
  17. California Is Chasing Wealth That Has Feet
  18. Book Review: The Natural Dividend
  19. New York Authorizes a Land Value Tax to Fund Transit and More — Landscape 9
  20. You Can Now Vibe Code Land Value Tax Modeling
  21. Land value taxes are winning: LVT Landscape Live
  22. How replacing council tax with a flat land value tax would affect households in the UK
  23. Yes, a Land Value Tax Is Possible in Washington State
  24. Contra Watling on "The failure of the land value tax"
  25. Property Taxes are Not Land Value Taxes
  26. Don’t Reject Data Centers. Negotiate Harder.
  27. How Appraisers Value Land
  28. UBI advocates should watch South Korea
  29. Two States Pass Land Value Tax Enabling Legislation -- Landscape 8
  30. How to Value Land: Korean style!
  31. A German State Quietly Implemented a Land Value Tax
  32. Build-to-Rent Isn’t the Problem
  33. Just Put It On a Map
  34. BOOM: Unanimous Vote Puts Land Value Tax Enablement on Governor’s Desk
  35. Decades of Wisdom from an LVT Advocate: Josh Vincent
  36. Property taxes going up? The 340B Program might be partly responsible
  37. Is Undervalued Vacant Land just a Baltimore problem?
  38. Research funding opportunities - Apply Now
  39. The Housing Crisis as a Land Crisis
  40. The Housing Ladder's Broken Promise
  41. Landscape 6 – New Year, New Legislative Sessions and Launching the CLE Board
  42. Return of the Georgists: A conversation with Greg Miller and Lars Doucet
  43. Will the Housing Market Crash in 2026?
  44. Georgism through Land Leasing

2025 39

  1. Enacting Land Value Return in your hometown
  2. Launching CivicMapper: Visualizing Land Values in 3D
  3. One Year of Land Value Tax Advocacy
  4. The Right-wing schism over property taxes
  5. BOOM: LVT Candidates Get Elected - Landscape #5
  6. Book Review: The Land Trap by Mike Bird
  7. Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, Champion of the Landless
  8. Stop incentivizing surface parking lots
  9. A Georgist’s reflections on YIMBYtown
  10. What happens when America's Monopoly board fills up?
  11. Land value return is needed, pragmatic, and achievable
  12. The Property Tax Patchwork Impeding Our Local Governments
  13. Valuing Land: The Simplest Viable Method
  14. So You Want to Abolish Property Taxes
  15. What Baltimore’s assessments taught me about cities, data, and fairness
  16. The Landscape #4: Wins aren’t always legislative, though legislative wins are on the horizon
  17. OpenAVMKit: a Free and Open Source mass appraisal library
  18. How Baltimore Assessments Accidentally Subsidize Blight—And How We Can Fix It
  19. The curious case of Qingdao, China's land value tax
  20. DeSantis is Half-Right About Property Taxes
  21. What don’t we know about LVT? Research that could advance Georgism.
  22. Amateurs talk Algorithms, Professionals talk Data Cleaning
  23. LVT Landscape #3: LVT Momentum is Worldwide
  24. Why Georgists use the 🔰 mark
  25. Did South Korea just elect a Georgist President?
  26. Want to Model a Land Value Tax Shift in Your City? Here's How.
  27. How Georgists Valued land in the 1900's
  28. Late-Night Amendment Opens Door to Massive Public Land Selloff
  29. New Reports: Land Value Taxes in College Towns
  30. Uniformity Does Not Preclude Land Value Taxes
  31. Book Review: Hate the Game by Daryl Fairweather
  32. LVT Landscape #2: Land Value Tax Hits the News
  33. The Leviathan: Property Taxes in the Big Apple
  34. Abundance and Anti-Monopoly: The Legacy of Tom Johnson
  35. Some Initial Thoughts on Abundance
  36. Mobile Home Parks, Harberger Auctions, and The Hold-Up Problem
  37. Mass Appraisal For The Masses: The Basics
  38. The LVT Landscape #1: Movement Across the U.S.
  39. Announcing the Center for Land Economics

2024 5

  1. A Georgist Approach to Emissions Rights
  2. Some Thoughts On Using Auctions For Land Valuation
  3. Groundly's Ground-Rent Grift
  4. What Should be Exempt from a Land Value Tax?
  5. Henry George and Sun Yat-sen: A Global Legacy of Land Reform

2023 17

  1. The Modern Georgism of Respected Economists Part 3/3: Leon Walras
  2. The Modern Georgism of Respected Economists Part 2/3: Harry Gunnison Brown
  3. The Modern Georgism of Respected Economists Part 1/3: Joseph Stiglitz
  4. Progress & Poverty Goes to New York
  5. Land Value Reparations for South Africa
  6. Land Value Tax Supporters in Michigan: Help Us Win!
  7. How YIMBYism Can Pave The Way For Georgism
  8. Geoism As Part of The Left-Libertarian Tradition
  9. Soliciting Contributors
  10. A Georgist Case For Free Banking
  11. A Brief Taxonomy of Online Anti-Georgism
  12. Socialism vs. the Single Tax, Pt. 2
  13. Socialism vs. The Single Tax, Pt. 1
  14. Letter to the California State Legislature
  15. What Georgism Is Not
  16. Why NIMBYs Are Not Enough
  17. No Silver Bullet Solutions to the Werewolf Crisis

2022 29

  1. How to Revive South Africa
  2. The Lone Star State Needs Land Value Taxes
  3. The Commonwealth City
  4. Essay Contest Honorable Mention: Serfs No More
  5. Georgism... In Space!
  6. In Memoriam: 125 Years Since Henry George
  7. Possibility-Space, Location Rents, and Copyright Law
  8. The Martian and the Economist: A Parable of Panaceas
  9. Land and Liberty to Build: On Georgism and YIMBYism
  10. Essay Contest Winner: A Common Heritage
  11. Should there be demand-based recurring fees on ENS domains?
  12. Essay Contest 2nd Place: The Sum of All Desires
  13. Essay Contest 3rd Place: The Georgist Jubilee
  14. Our Bright Georgist Future
  15. Ode to Liberty
  16. Natural Justice
  17. Help Support Progress & Poverty
  18. Land value tax in online games and virtual worlds: A how-to guide
  19. Life at the Margin of Production
  20. The Evolutionary Blueprint
  21. Andrew Crockett is the Assessor Santa Clara County Needs
  22. Letter From a Young Distributist
  23. Singapore: Economic Prosperity through Innovative Land Policy
  24. Norway's Sovereign Wealth Fund
  25. The Homevoters and the Haut Precariat
  26. Georgism in Interwar Europe
  27. Why Georgism? Why Now?
  28. Who Made the Land Value?
  29. Progress and Poverty: Towards A New Georgist Dialogue