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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

A social housing revolving loan fund could break through these barriers, get shovels in the ground and, get additional affordable housing all for little cost to the public. Private financial institutions alone in this environment can’t get get us the building boom we need.

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CA Common Ground @cacommonground.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

This survey is a great opportunity to advocate for a vision of social housing for all that shares land values across the community to lower rents for everyone. California needs publicly-owned, fiscally sustainable housing at scale for all income levels. Respond by August 8th!

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

June treasury data came in today, and Americans paid a record $27B in tariffs & related DHS excise taxes this month—for an annualized pace of more than $300B/year The graph of intense pain & suffering keeps getting worse

a graph of US tariffs and DHS excise taxes paid, monthly annualized, which rises from $100B to $300B

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CA Common Ground @cacommonground.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Happy Juneteenth! Prop 13 perpetuates racial inequity by giving tax breaks to older, wealther, whiter homeowners. To provide justice for Black Californians, we need to reform Prop 13. www.zocalopublicsquare.org/yes-prop-13-...

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Yes, Prop. 13 Is Racist | Essay

The Infamous Tax Policy Disproportionately Benefits Older, Wealthier, Whiter Californians—But We Could Change That.

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Streets For All @streetsforall.org · 16/05/2025

Could land use reform solve LA’s budget crisis? Our bill SB-79 with @scottweiner.bsky.social would increase housing near transit, increasing the City’s largest revenue source: property taxes. Read our brand-new research here: data.streetsforall.org/blog/sb79_zo...

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How Land Use Reform Could Help Solve the Los Angeles Budget Crisis

Our high-level analysis shows how restrictive, exclusionary zoning has accentuated the City’s financial crisis, and how targeting upzoning could help balance budgets. Senate Bill 79 would create capac...

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CA Common Ground @cacommonground.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Investments in transit increase land values. Without intervention, this public investment is captured by private landowners, but if we build housing on public land near transit, that value can be redistributed to transit riders through better funding. thephiladelphiacitizen.org/septa-proper...

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Two Problems, One Solution — SEPTA

Why fund SEPTA? Public transit access provides higher property values and more incentive to build much-needed housing

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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

A long term solution to the US transit funding crisis probably lies in capturing the value that transit creates: the increase in local land value around frequent service. That's the key to delivering both transit and dense housing nearby. Great @jongeeting.bsky.social piece, relevant nationwide.

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Two Problems, One Solution — SEPTA

Why fund SEPTA? Public transit access provides higher property values and more incentive to build much-needed housing

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CA Common Ground @cacommonground.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

One hundred years ago, the US government attempted mass deportations of immigrants for their political speech and ethnicity. Louis Post, the leader of the Georgist movement, stopped them. Today, we Georgists must once again stand up for immigrants. www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

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When America Tried to Deport Its Radicals

A hundred years ago, the Palmer Raids imperilled thousands of immigrants. Then a wily official got in the way.

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CA Common Ground @cacommonground.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Very encouraging to see transit value capture gaining widespread interest. By developing public land while retaining public ownership, we recapture land value uplift created by public investments, and can reinvest it for public good, not private profit.

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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

In the Tokyo area, rail operators derive 30-50% of revenue from ground rents of developments near their stations. Common Ground California proposes California could adopt similar approaches to create more sustainable transit funding models. buff.ly/rVa4B9U

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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Common Ground California report examines Hong Kong's transit model, which operates without government subsidies. Instead, the system funds itself through rental income from properties near stations and by selling development rights on transit-owned land. buff.ly/rVa4B9U

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CA Common Ground @cacommonground.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Happy Tax Day! Let's hear it for the Land Value Tax, the tax that decreases inequality, increases housing affordability, and promotes sustainable economic growth and productive investment!

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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 09/04/2025

The Republican tariffs are an existential threat to places like Oakland Chinatown and other immigrant neighborhoods, many of which were already struggling. A lot of the product is imported and a lot of the customers are low income. State & local policy will need to move quickly to save them.

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CA Common Ground @cacommonground.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Trump's latest round of tariffs will raise the average American's taxes by $4,700 - while he cuts taxes for billionaires. Poor people and immigrants who rely on imported groceries will be hit hardest. Import taxes are not progressive and should be condemned by all supporters of economic justice.

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Free Land, Free Trade, Free People @freelandtradeppl.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Trade has ever been the extinguisher of war, the eradicator of prejudice, the diffuser of knowledge... men in one place have been enabled not only to obtain the products, but to profit by the observations, discoveries and inventions of men in other places. -HG, Protection or Free Trade

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Once again: reject McKinley, embrace George

A picture of Henry George with a quote that says “protectionism teaches us to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war”

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CA Common Ground @cacommonground.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Replacing revenue-raising tariffs with the income tax, which still taxes rents, was one of Georgists' greatest accomplishments. Trump wants to take us back to the unfair 19th century economy. schalkenbach.org/why-do-georg...

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Why do Georgists oppose tariffs? – RSF Website

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

It's the day for this quote!

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CA Common Ground @cacommonground.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

The minimum tariff imposed by Trump is higher than the sales tax in most California cities- taxes that are already high thanks to unfair tax breaks for landowners. This tariff regime will massively increase prices for Californians who already struggle to afford housing. Tax land, not labor.

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工an Monroe 🚰 @eean.dev · 19/12/2024

Understanding the significance of parking requirements to everything is good Georgist thinking, pricing street parking adequately is literal georgism

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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

One of the best thinkers on rent since Henry George.

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CA Common Ground @cacommonground.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Rest in Peace, Professor Shoup. Donald Shoup's work on pricing parking pioneered the fusion of Georgist ideas and practical urbanist reforms. He will be missed. We strive to uphold his legacy by continuing to advocate for proper public capture of urban rents.

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CA Common Ground @cacommonground.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

These tariffs are a tax on the American people. Produce you buy at the grocery store, new cars, and computers will be 25% more expensive if this goes through.

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Free Land, Free Trade, Free People @freelandtradeppl.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

"America freed the slaves...but gave the slaves no land to get started on. At the same time, America was giving away millions of acres of land...to give the white peasants form Europe an economic base, and yet it refused to give its Black peasants any kind of economic base" -MLK, 1967 (minute 15:30)

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MLK Talks 'New Phase' Of Civil Rights Struggle, 11 Months Before His Assassination | NBC News

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CA Common Ground @cacommonground.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

"What protection teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war." - Henry George Tax land, not labor!

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

20) even if you already know about Prop 13, you probably know just a fraction of how messed up California property taxation is lao.ca.gov/reports/2012...

State Laws Direct Allocation of Revenue From the 1 Percent Rate. The county auditor is responsible for allocating revenue generated from the 1 percent rate to local governments pursuant to state law. The allocation system is commonly referred to as “AB 8,” after the bill that first implemented the system—Chapter 282, Statutes of 1979 (AB 8, L. Greene). In general, AB 8 provides a share of the total property taxes collected within a community to each local government that provides services within that community. *Each local government’s share is based on its proportionate countywide share of property taxes during the mid–1970s, a time when each local government determined its own property tax rate and property owners paid taxes based on the sum of these rates.* (The average property tax rate totaled about 2.7 percent.) As a result, local governments that received a large share of property taxes in the 1970s typically receive a relatively large share of revenue from the 1 percent rate under AB 8.

Revenue Allocated by Tax Rate Area (TRA). The county auditor allocates the revenue to local governments by TRA. A TRA is a small geographical area within the county that contains properties that are all served by a unique combination of local governments—the county, a city, and the same set of special districts and school districts. *A single county may have thousands of TRAs.* While there is considerable variation in the steps county auditors use to allocate revenue within each TRA, typically the county auditor annually determines how much revenue was collected in each TRA and first allocates to each local government in the TRA the same amount of revenue it received in the prior year. Each local government then receives a share of any growth (or loss) in

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CA Common Ground @cacommonground.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

California's tax system is a dark, twisted inversion of a land value tax. Rather than encouraging the highest, best use of land, it actively incentivizes wasteful and environmentally devastating uses like golf courses, while people are dying on the streets due to the housing shortage.

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CA Common Ground @cacommonground.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Georgists ended the era of revenue-raising taxes 100 years ago. We're not going back. Tax land, not labor.

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CA Common Ground @cacommonground.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Hear Common Ground CA members @thomassjamal.bsky.social and @emoscientist.bsky.social speak about Land Value Tax activism on this panel hosted by Common Ground Minnesota and the Sierra Club on December 5th at 4:30 PM PT! act.sierraclub.org/events/detai...

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Legalize LVT (Land Value Tax): Expert Panel Discussion

Learn about LVT and its climate, housing, and equity benefits

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Free Land, Free Trade, Free People @freelandtradeppl.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

"What protection teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war." -Henry George, "Protection or Free Trade?"

A privateer attacks a merchant ship, seeking to restrict its enemy's trade during a war

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CA Common Ground @cacommonground.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

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Legalize LVT (Land Value Tax): Expert Panel Discussion

Learn about LVT and its climate, housing, and equity benefits

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CA Common Ground @cacommonground.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

50 years later, renters are still waiting for that Prop 13 rebate.

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Free Land, Free Trade, Free People @freelandtradeppl.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

"In this new country, where there are as yet only sixty-five millions of us scattered over a territory that in the present stage of the arts is sufficient to support in comfort a thousand million; yet we are actually thinking and talking as if there were too many people" -HG, 1890

A border wall, stretching across empty desert

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Sloposition 13 Iconoclast🚰🔰 @josh.hawn.xyz · 12/11/2024

I'm putting together a team. go.bsky.app/N2c2ypE Please let me know what other Based Georgists (Pro-LVT, Pro-Housing, Pro-Public Land, Pro-Social Housing, Pro-Sewer Socialism, Pro-State Capacity, Pro-Electric Rail, Pro-Single Stair) folks you think should be in this starter pack!

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 07/11/2024

California is going to need to learn how to properly utilize the existing infrastructure because shiny new things are off the table. Yes, this means thousands of new high-rises around the existing BART, LA Metro, and MTS stations.

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CA Common Ground @cacommonground.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Introduction to us: we are the largest chapter Common Ground USA, a membership organization devoted to advancing the economic ideas of Henry George. If you're George-curious and think #LVTwouldfixthis, we're for you! 🔰

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CA Common Ground @cacommonground.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Concerned about California's escalating poverty and housing crises? Want to stand up against Trump's economy-wrecking tariff plans? Want to build a stable, reliable, well-funded public sector in California? Common Ground is fighting for all of this and more, join us! commonground-usa.net/join-us/

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Join Us - Common Ground U.S.A.

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