Land value tax fixes this

In 2025, Jürgen Habermas—perhaps Europe’s most well-known living philosopher—spoke with Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins about faith, reason, and the public sphere. www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Big investors can keep deploying SFR capital if they meet the industrial policy goals accompanying HUD Code chassis reform Disciplining big capital can spook its animal spirits, but that's a risk with industrial policy & market shaping Not my laissez-faire approach. But not a hard ban either!

100+ pro-housing groups across 30+ states have signed a letter celebrating the pro-supply measures in the ROAD package, but calling for a fix to the anti-BTR provisions:

Excellent speech from @schatz.bsky.social Schatz on the importance of fixing anti-build-to-rent provision in the ROAD to Housing Act (h/t @pewilliams.bsky.social) (1/3)

I talked with @birdyword.bsky.social about his excellent book "The Land Trap: A New History of the World's Oldest Asset." We covered the Chinese real estate bubble, Singapore's escape from the trap, and the age-old question: would a land value tax solve this?

I'm in the Sun Sentinel, making the case that DeSantis's tax cuts are insufficiently conservative. www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/12/09/a...

Conference on Henry George and Georgism at Wharton in May: philevents.org/event/show/1...

LVT endorsement from @repbillfoster.bsky.social: "One way to encourage [housing density] is with a land value tax... We could structure the federal tax code to encourage a land value-based tax"

My colleagues @awjustus.bsky.social and @aarmlovi.bsky.social have a new article out connecting electoral design to local housing politics. They show how proportional representation in Cambridge has sidestepped the pitfalls of both district based and traditional first-past-the-post councils

Sam Altman’s promotion of Henry George’s land tax reflects a surprising revival of Georgism in Silicon Valley. Our essay of the week traces how anti-statist thinkers reappropriated George’s critique of rentier capitalism. By @reed-schwartz.bsky.social in @asteriskmag.bsky.social buff.ly/qBLC9vR

There may be only one policy proposal that @maxspeak.bsky.social and Mike Duggan (and I!) agree on -- a land value tax. Henry George for New York City open.substack.com/pub/sawicky/...

I wrote for Asterisk Magazine about the *other* outsider politician who unites Silicon Valley billionaires, Zionists, and the American Right: Henry George. asteriskmag.com/issues/10/th...

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