Common Ground USA is an all-volunteer organization that promotes land value tax shifts, rent-sharing land trusts, and other commons-based approaches to social, environmental and economic issues.

From the Common Ground USA Blog

The Wall Street Journal Advocates Taxing Vacant Land at Higher Levels…but is there More to The Story?

A major local newspaper captures the need for Land Value Taxes, but misses the hyperlocal concerns of the community. YIMBY policies and zoning reform would round out the solutions to New York City’s chronic and growing housing crisis.

Suburbia is Subsidized

America, and to a lesser extent, Canada, made an historic mistake of relying on cars and not people that is now bankrupting cities all over the country. It’s an insidious, rarely acknowledged choice, and so pervasive that it’s not obvious until you really look at the data. Unmentioned in the video, but a partial solution, would be congestion taxation. This would discourage driving, provide funding for mass transit, and allow taxes of productive activities like work to be decreased. It could begin to reverse the car-dependent culture that is sapping the national account and dividing and polarizing broken communities all over the country, a political win for the nation as well as an economic one.

Upcoming Events in November

Sierra Club Minnesota: TOD & LVT (Transit Oriented Development & Land Value Tax) for Sustainability Date and Time:Tue, Nov 15, 2022; 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM (Local Time) Organized By: North Star Chapter Location: Virtual >Register< Event...

The Henry George Program

New ep! We have @DonaldShoup on to talk about parking (!) Discussing the success of AB2097, connections to parking reform to land value tax, and much much more.

WHO’S GETTING WALKED OVER?

Willamette Week carried Sofie Peel’s story in the October 26 issue about the reaction of Montavilla neighborhood residents to a city proposal to repair long-neglected unimproved streets on 89th Avenue. Portland City Council is refocusing its infrastructure projects on one of the most overlooked parts of town – East Portland.

Is Land Value Taxation even more Powerful a cure than Even Georgists Believe?

This article in The City: https://www.thecity.nyc/housing/2022/10/20/23413894/vacant-rent-stabilized-apartments-nyc, plus a previous one on the same issue of Affordable Housing just the day before, made me think that the way to cut through the morass of regulations, incentives and political factions, might be just to ignore many of them and just to implement Land Value Taxation broadly.