Jan 26, 2023 | Articles, Groundswell
Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) has taken dramatic leaps recently, far eclipsing Alan Turing’s test of whether a person can tell if they are speaking to a real person or a computer. Most teachers can’t tell a student’s paper from one generated by the new, and...
Dec 12, 2022 | Groundswell
The new A.I. application ChatGPT can be queried in natural language and will return an answer, usually in a few seconds. Here is how it responded on Land Value Taxation: What are the benefits of land value taxation? Land value taxation is a type of tax that is based...
Nov 25, 2022 | Articles, Research
The Wall Street Journal recently published an article (behind a paywall) entitled “Housing Shortage Reflects the Cheap Cost of Holding Vacant Land.” As the subheading says “High taxes on buildings and low taxes on land discourage landowners from...
Nov 13, 2022 | Groundswell
Strong Towns, through its consulting arm: Urban3, analyzed dozens of cities and proved that car-centric towns and suburbs are a net drain on local revenues. Downtowns that are walkable, or even better, use mass transit, generate vastly more revenue, every time. Urban3...
Oct 20, 2022 | Articles, Groundswell
By Scott Baker This article in The City (link), 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...
