Center for Land Economics brings on a Head of Policy and Partnerships

The long-awaited follow up to my guest post series at Astral Codex Ten

The unintended consequences of real estate non-disclosure

LVT is more popular than ever as cities and states lay the groundwork for legislation.

A new paper shows low property taxes are locking young families out of homeownership.

The best way to regulate and tax AI depends on how it behaves

Disaster speculation is real. And land is at its core.

One weird trick for turning Property Tax into Land Value Tax

A land value tax now has a friend in Number 10.

Plus new CivicMapper and LVTShift updates

Ethiopia owns all of its urban land and leases it back to its people. A former Addis Ababa municipal manager traces three decades of reform

California has $8.14 trillion in land sitting right under its feet. It's chasing billionaires instead.

The Norwegian cure for the Resource Curse

LVT continues to increase in conversation; Florida and Ohio fight over abolishing the property tax; Spokane runs the numbers; Colorado stalls; Duggan drops out

New agent skills in LVTShift run the whole pipeline — data, legal pathway, modeling, and graphics — from a single command.

Video and transcript from our latest LVT Landscape LIVE

New PolicyEngine modeling on a revenue-neutral swap: scrap council tax, tax land instead. Most households gain; poverty edges down.

A new report modeling a property tax building exemption in Spokane rebalances incentives toward community goals, encouraging homebuilding and discouraging in-city vacant land speculation.

There are many successful examples of land valuation and land value taxation, which critics don't engage with.

Contra Kevin Erdmann: building taxes are bad, actually.

They can be profitable for cities.

An interview with Thomas Holding, a veteran appraiser who has worked on all sides of the industry

With back-to-back wins in Virginia and Kentucky, land value taxation is re-emerging as a viable policy tool.

Wales asked the question, Korea answered it.

In Baden-Württemberg, a quiet reform shows land value taxation isn’t just theory—it’s already happening.

The system incentivizing it is.

An underrated strategy for urbanist persuasion, powered by open source tools

In Virginia, a unanimous senate vote puts LVT on the Governors desk. Meanwhile, Kentucky also joins the momentum as other states continue on toward LVT enablement.

An interview with Josh Vincent, who has been successfully advancing Land Value Tax shifts in cities across Pennsylvania for decades and getting cities to think larger about the role of land.

The 340B Drug Pricing Program incentivizes tax-exempt, nonprofit health systems to expand, but that expansion can be costly for local taxpayers

We compared it against every other Maryland county

The launch of the Center for Land Economics Fellowship, PPI's 2026 Progress of Ideas grant, and Henry George Foundation of Great Britain grant.

Why rising housing costs are really about constrained urban land, and what to do about it

Housing can be affordable, or an investment, but not both.

New LVT bills launch in Maryland and New Hampshire, carryover legislation returns in New York and Minnesota, Spokane keeps pushing in Washington—and CLE officially announces its Board

A recording from Greg Miller and Jeff Fong's live video

The "18-year land cycle" theory predicts a crash this year. Martin Jacobson evaluates the evidence for it.

Municipal Land Leasing is real, effective, and very, very Georgist

A how-to guide for local activists

How you can support us on Giving Tuesday

Youtubers, state senators, and the Charlie Kirk show go to war with the GOP establishment

Mayoral candidates supporting LVT win in Seattle and Buffalo as LVT grows more mainstream.

Land is an even bigger deal than you thought

Mamdani won with the support of the tenant class. But should he control their rent? Or redistribute it?

They are draining the economic potential of our cities. We need to make them financially unsustainable.

Georgism is where YIMBYism should go next.

Video/transcript from the latest LVT Landscape LIVE event

Local governments keep cutting special deals creating inefficient systems. What does it say about property tax incentives?

The least we can do to improve land valuation methodology right away