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.

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!

Please take this @ternerhousing.bsky.social study on what social housing means to you and should mean to California berkeley.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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

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-...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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.

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

Once again: reject McKinley, embrace George

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...

It's the day for this quote!

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.

Mood

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

One of the best thinkers on rent since Henry George.

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.

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.

"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)

"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!

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...

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.

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

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...

"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?"

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...

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

"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

That's right.

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!

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.

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! 🔰

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/