Common Ground U.S.A.

California State Multi-family Housing Bill & Relation to Land Value Taxation

Dec 13, 2025 | Groundswell

Georgist and student 2024 Henry George in the 21st Century Writing Contest winner, Jamal Thomas, has modeled a citizen proposed bill to increase housing, paving the way for Land Value Taxation on higher land values in the future. Is it enough? The hypothetical bill...

Killer Arguments Against Land Value Taxation … Not

Nov 27, 2025 | Success stories

By Mark Wadsworth (Posthumous) and Scott Baker (Editor) The late Mark Wadsworth from the U.K. quietly amassed what is perhaps the best compendium or index of arguments against LVT on the internet…and then wrote articles to refute all of them. The main categories...

The Land Value Group will be having a booth at YIMBYTOWN September 14-16

Aug 16, 2025 | Groundswell

The Land Value Group, which is composed of Center for the Study of Economics, Public Revenue Education Council and Common Ground USA, will be having a booth at YIMBYTOWN September 14-16 in New Haven CT. Darryl Fairweather is the 9 am Sunday keynote speaker. Here...

“Abundance” Wants to Save Liberalism. It Can’t.

Aug 1, 2025 | Groundswell

Video podcaster Shenandoah’s review of Abundance, by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson. Shenandoah writes “my review of Abundance, the new book by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson — what it gets right, what it misses, and how its vision of “abundance liberalism”...

The Limits of Sprawl

Jul 28, 2025 | Groundswell

By Paul Krugman Noble prize-winning Paul Krugman writes about Atlanta sprawl and how Atlanta is being constrained by increasing traffic as a result of it, while mass transportation remains impractical because of a continued bias towards low density single family...