Better Cities

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Better Cities

What He Said — Harold Sudell in 1947, and Enoch Ensley in 1871 — and Amazon's search for location Oct 15, 2017
Another Wise LTE, from 1932 Oct 14, 2017
Who Gets the Land Rent, and Why: Two NYC Stories Nov 9, 2014
That acre in Manhattan Oct 21, 2012
The Earth-for-All Calendar: October 3 — Marmontel Oct 3, 2012
On Wages, from an 1887 weekly ... and relevant in 2012 America Oct 2, 2012
The Church(es) in Politics Sep 15, 2012
The Earth-for-All Calendar: August 7 — Thorold Rogers and Ede Aug 7, 2012
The Earth-for-All Calendar: July 27 — John Morley Jul 27, 2012
Bankrupt in California Jul 14, 2012
High Rent as the Best Manure Jul 4, 2012
Good Foundations Jul 2, 2012
The Rent of Land, and Government Expense Jun 28, 2012
License fees for every worker, or tax land value for revenue? Jun 16, 2012
Resource Rentals for Revenue — The 3 R's of fixing our economy Jun 13, 2012
Parking Revenue funds "Room for All" Apr 16, 2012
Appropriating the Gifts of Nature Apr 13, 2012
Developer Inks 99-Year Lease Mar 23, 2012
The Land Questions: #40: promoting urban housing for all who want it Mar 22, 2012
The Land Questions: #27 — Financing a New Subway Line Feb 27, 2012
The value of land is the day-to-day product of the community Feb 22, 2012
The Land Questions: #22 — Infrastructure and Land Values Feb 22, 2012
The Land Questions: #21 — Paying for Transportation Infrastructure Feb 21, 2012
The Land Questions: #20 Affordable Housing Feb 20, 2012
The Land Questions: #17 — Middle East Feb 17, 2012
A 1938 NYT Letter to the Editor: Collecting Ground Rent Feb 16, 2012
How to Bring The Cost of Housing Back within Reach of All American Families (1978) Feb 7, 2012
Shalom and Taxation Feb 3, 2012
WSJ LTE: incentives for growth in cities Jan 27, 2012
The Opposition to Land Value Taxation Jan 22, 2012
Who are the Criminals? — Henry George, Jr., 1901 Nov 4, 2011
Another whistle-blower, ignored by authorities ... Oct 9, 2011
LTE: Rising Rate of Poverty - NYTimes.com Sep 26, 2011
What's an intact tire and your car's alignment worth to you, per year? Sep 25, 2011
Taxing work does not create ... Sep 4, 2011
Public Revenue for Libraries Sep 4, 2011
The Population-Value of Natural Resources Jul 14, 2011
A Better Way to Do Housing Apr 11, 2011
Thinking about taxes and jobs Feb 16, 2011
What should we tax? Feb 10, 2011
Riches from real estate: cui bono? Feb 10, 2011
Public Ownership of essential utilities Feb 10, 2011
Right-sized government and the REVENUE side of the budget Feb 10, 2011
What Tolstoy Taught: Human Rights Nov 28, 2010
The Case Plainly Stated Nov 22, 2010
Get Rich Quick Scheme Nov 7, 2010
One Nation, Two Deficits — and how to fix things Oct 15, 2010
As Stadiums Vanish, Their Debt Lives On Sep 8, 2010
Obama to Call for $50 Billion Public Works Plan Sep 6, 2010
Suburban Sprawl and the Decline of Social Capital Aug 26, 2010
The End of Poverty? Think Again! Aug 24, 2010
Learning To Get Out Of The Way « Aldous Huxley | This I Believe Aug 15, 2010
Princeton's Revaluation Aug 6, 2010
The Larger Struggle - David Brooks Jun 16, 2010
New plan to make millions in profits without any investment - PakTribune Jun 16, 2010
What's the real cost of living, in Pennsylvania? Jun 4, 2010
So how do we reduce our reliance on oil? May 31, 2010
The Labour Problem ... population? or something else? May 30, 2010
Education and Democracy May 29, 2010
Which Georgist first called LVT the "least bad" tax? May 13, 2010
When 2+3=6, who is entitled to the "extra" 1? Apr 27, 2010
It is time for a paradigm shift on housing Apr 9, 2010
Bits and Pieces from a 1914 Bi-Monthly Apr 9, 2010
Mine! All Mine! Apr 8, 2010
Land in Manhattan Mar 19, 2010
Struggling Governments Get Creative to Raise Income Mar 19, 2010
Who is prospering from Prop 13? Mar 17, 2010
Union College Admits That It’s in Schenectady, NY Mar 9, 2010
That $1 billion acre in Manhattan Mar 9, 2010
U.S. Plans New Measure for Poverty Mar 7, 2010
Hedge Fund Moves on Stuyvesant Town Feb 24, 2010
Nation Building — abroad and at home Feb 23, 2010
America's millionaires Feb 17, 2010
How should we-the-people pay for ... snow removal? Feb 15, 2010
Land, labor and capital: cleaning up after the snow storm Feb 14, 2010
Which part of a house is unaffordable? Feb 12, 2010
Do We Really Have to Create Man-made Misery to Supplement What Nature Provides? Feb 1, 2010
10 of the largest endowments in N.E. Jan 31, 2010
Tishman Speyer Surrenders Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Jan 26, 2010
Progress & Poverty is on Kindle Jan 16, 2010
First-time homebuyers as sharecroppers Nov 9, 2009
Follow the Money: A Close Look at Recent Southern California Foreclosures Aug 18, 2009
NRDC: Ranking States’ Oil Vulnerability and Solutions for Change Aug 12, 2009
Opportunities, Privilege, Rent — and a better way to fund our common spending Jul 22, 2009
A LITTLE POLITICAL FABLE: Public Transportation Jul 22, 2009
PARABLE OF THE OFFICE BUILDING Jul 21, 2009
"END ALL TAXES - EXCEPT ONE" Jun 13, 2009
Is California Over-Taxed? Jun 7, 2009
Land Value Taxation — Connecticut's legislature just passed enabling legislation for New London to try it! Jun 3, 2009
Gary Schilling's idea ... May 14, 2009
Carpe Diem! Remembering Bob Drake, of Chicago May 14, 2009
How Should Connecticut Pay for Maintaining I-95, I-91, I-84 and the Parkways? May 9, 2009
The UK Rich List — some additional thoughts — with reference to America, as well May 9, 2009
Council of Georgist Organizations Conference: Cleveland 2009 May 5, 2009
How Do We Fix an Ailing Economy? Apr 12, 2009
Michael Kinsley - The Senate's Estate Tax Debate Apr 10, 2009
About Land Value Taxation Apr 8, 2009
Just What is Home Equity? Feb 25, 2009
The 2007 Survey of Consumer Finances: Are we going to complain, or are we going to create the conditions which will improve things? Feb 16, 2009
Lawson Purdy: The Influence of Taxation on the Prosperity of Cities Feb 16, 2009
A Price for Existence Feb 15, 2009
How Might We Stimulate the Economy — at minimal expense? Feb 9, 2009
Should Landlords Share in their Tenants' Profits? Should our Urban Landlords be Society's Big Winners? Feb 9, 2009
Grocery Store Parking Lot: Sprawl in Microcosm Feb 5, 2009
Statistics of Income: Mortgage Interest and Real Estate Taxes Feb 5, 2009
Who do we mean when we say "Main Street?" Feb 5, 2009
A Unitarian-Universalist Perspective on the Economic Crisis Jan 26, 2009
Slum Dog Millionaire, India and America Jan 25, 2009
Cashing in on urban land value ... who is entitled to it? Jan 23, 2009
Let Us Now Praise the Back Roads of Alabama Jan 23, 2009
NYT: Property Values - What You Get for ... $850,000 Jan 21, 2009
Dumbest Thing Voters Did Jan 18, 2009
Landlording in NYC: "We don't pay taxes, only the little people pay taxes." Jan 3, 2009
Eisenhower's roads to prosperity Jan 2, 2009
The landowner and the taxpayer Dec 29, 2008
The Foldvarium: How to Extirpate Poverty Dec 21, 2008
The Feoffees may sell Little Neck to the tenants ... for ever and ever Dec 18, 2008
Daily Kos: One Person's Lot is Person's Loot Dec 11, 2008
A Property Tax Cut Could Help Save Buffalo - WSJ.com Dec 7, 2008
Change.gov Dec 7, 2008
Michael Kinsley on "Progress & Poverty" Dec 6, 2008
hear, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest Nov 29, 2008
Taxes and Tolls Sought in Plan to Save M.T.A. - NYTimes.com Nov 29, 2008
Trickle-Up Economics Nov 29, 2008
Dying of Consumption - NYT Nov 29, 2008
Tom Friedman, NYT 11/26/08 - All Fall Down Nov 29, 2008
Should we tax action, or tax inaction? Nov 27, 2008
Change Needed to End Boom-Bust Cycles Nov 27, 2008
Mason Gaffney: "The Great Crash of 2008" — and how we can dig out and head off the next one Nov 10, 2008
Wealth Concentration, Income Concentration, and Ups & Downs in Consumer Spending Nov 7, 2008
Americans and Mass Transit Nov 1, 2008
That acre in midtown Manhattan: $800 million — as a teardown! Nov 1, 2008
I'm not thrilled with our choices in November Oct 28, 2008
Spreading the Wealth: Some kinds of wealth OUGHT to be spread! Oct 28, 2008
Not Everyone Should Own a Home - WSJ.com Oct 28, 2008
Pew study: Inside the Middle Class: Bad Times Hit the Good Life Oct 28, 2008
Henry George was right ... Oct 15, 2008
We've made a secular religion of homeownership Oct 15, 2008
Another benefit of civilization and government Oct 12, 2008
Pulitzer Prize Winner Stresses Ethical Taxation Oct 1, 2008
Assessing Land Values Sep 28, 2008
When I am elected President ... Sep 26, 2008
Democratic Capitalism ... Sep 24, 2008
We all contribute to rent. Some of us get to live off it. How does this fit with the notion that we are created equal? Sep 24, 2008
He who sees the truth ... Sep 24, 2008
A Budget is a Moral Document Sep 24, 2008
An Election Season Thought Sep 22, 2008
Some thoughts about paying taxes... Sep 22, 2008
Productive loans, vs non-productive ones Sep 22, 2008
A 21st Century Georgist in the Revised Common Lectionary Sep 22, 2008
Pres. Bush is worried about people being able to send their children to college Sep 20, 2008
The Bridge to Nowhere, and the Road to Access It Sep 19, 2008
David Cay Johnston: The Prospering Swedes Sep 18, 2008
Finishing the Bridge Construction Ahead of Schedule ... Sep 17, 2008
LA Times: Can California survive 'no new taxes'? Sep 17, 2008
That block in Manhattan ... Sep 17, 2008
Being born into the Landed Gentry is like holding the winning lottery ticket Sep 6, 2008
Auctioning leases on our common assets: far better than giving away the asset or auctioning it once and for all Sep 4, 2008
David Cay Johnston: Income Data and the Future of the Nation Sep 4, 2008
Gold-based lease could cause million-dollar rent hike for Forest City Enterprises Sep 3, 2008
Valuing life, and applying fiscal stimulus, and setting us all equal Sep 2, 2008
Downtown Nantucket: Who Should Get the Rent? Sep 2, 2008
How do people who are created equal share resources equitably? Sep 1, 2008
Joe Stiglitz: Turn left for growth Aug 26, 2008
Making Work Pay Enough: A Decent Standard of Living for Working Families Aug 26, 2008
Renters deserve a better shake - Boston Globe Aug 14, 2008
Advances in Local Emergency Services: How Should We Pay for Them? Aug 2, 2008
Low Rent, East Side Location - See Landlord, if You’re Famous Jul 22, 2008
Transfers of Wealth Overseas Jul 20, 2008
Mandela's B-Day message: Rich should help poor Jul 18, 2008
Cindy McCain's San Diego condo (the oldest of their 3) Jul 16, 2008
We All Pay for Leona Helmsley’s Bequest to Dogs - NYT Jul 10, 2008
The Housing Crash and the Retirement Prospects of Late Baby Boomers Jul 5, 2008
Tax Analysts column: The Price of Civilization Jul 4, 2008
Leona Helmsley’s Fortune May Go to Benefit Dogs Jul 4, 2008
Be a good ancestor Jun 26, 2008
CA & FL account for nearly 1/3 of mortgages in foreclosure or 90 days delinquent Jun 19, 2008
Thoughts for Barack Obama Jun 19, 2008
Democracy and Opportunity: A New Paradigm in Tax Equity Jun 18, 2008
The Landed Gentry Jun 16, 2008
Joseph Stiglitz: Revise Taxation to Combat Scarcity in an Age of Plenty Jun 10, 2008
The Landlord's Prayer Jun 10, 2008
Oil, Land, Water — who among us is entitled to privatize their value? Jun 8, 2008
The Elder Economic Security Standard, new sibling to the Self Sufficiency Standard Jun 8, 2008
One Solution for Many Problems? Jun 8, 2008
Golf Courses, Assessments, Property Taxes, and Nonmembers May 28, 2008
Taxes that protect our firefighters May 28, 2008
Taxes as the Price We Pay for a Civilized Society — But What Taxes? May 28, 2008
Is LVT the answer to all our problems? May 28, 2008
Krugman: Stranded in Suburbia - New York Times May 19, 2008
The Price of Land in the New York Metropolitan Area May 15, 2008
Are you going to be part of the problem, or part of the solution? May 10, 2008
Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: Rafe Esquith sort of sees it! Apr 28, 2008
A Few Inconvenient Truths about the Property Tax Apr 28, 2008
A Few Inconvenient Truths about the Property Tax Apr 28, 2008
Are Property Tax "Circuit Breakers" a 'Solution' to anything? Apr 28, 2008
Bill Batt: Property Tax Relief Measures: Answers to the "Poor Widow" Argument Apr 23, 2008
Why Smart People should shun the "FairTax" concept Apr 19, 2008
How much is your home worth? Apr 18, 2008
a tax reformer does the family 1040's Apr 18, 2008
The Purpose of Government Apr 17, 2008
Abolish All 'Taxes' - NYT Apr 17, 2008
California's Proposition 13 and Parcel Taxes: Adding insult to injury for new property owners Apr 13, 2008
Alabama's taxes Apr 13, 2008
Contra Costa Times OpEd — End the property tax Apr 13, 2008
Taxes as oppression, taxes as incentives: Alabama Apr 12, 2008
Still on the mountaintop: Economically rational racism Apr 4, 2008
Bob Herbert's 3/11 column, Sharing the Pain: The "Near-Poor" Apr 1, 2008
CT: Revitalizing older cities Apr 1, 2008
Earmarks, nightlights and windfalls - Individual, or Community? Apr 1, 2008
Fixing Wages, and Fixing Housing Affordability — for All of Us Apr 1, 2008
Fortunes Made in Real Estate Apr 1, 2008
Is LVT the answer? It depends what the question is. Apr 1, 2008
The Taxpayer at 72nd and Madison Apr 1, 2008
Working harder, making others richer Apr 1, 2008
Affordable housing — for all of us. What policies promote it? Mar 31, 2008
Harvard Law, Hoping Students Will Consider Public Service, Offers Tuition Break - New York Times Mar 30, 2008
Assessments that favor the big landholders Mar 30, 2008
Connecticut: Downtown Sprawl, Property Assessments and Getting the Incentives Right Mar 30, 2008
Financing Municipal Spending through Sales Taxes: an Inferior "Solution" Mar 30, 2008
Landholders, windfalls, productive effort and community revenue Mar 30, 2008
Private (homeowner) Associations, their Private Beaches, and the Local Assessor Mar 30, 2008
Redirecting Sprawl Mar 30, 2008
Revitalizing older cities Mar 29, 2008
San Luis Obispo County (CA): Governor tells SLO County that 'nothing is sacred' when it comes to budget cuts Mar 29, 2008
Funding Infrastructure: A Dedicated Funding Stream Mar 29, 2008
Is LVT the answer? It depends what the question is. Mar 28, 2008
Philadelphia, its Wage Tax and its Residents Mar 27, 2008
The Colorado Self-Sufficiency Standard, 2008 Mar 26, 2008
Connecticut: Should Cities Use a Sales Tax? Mar 25, 2008
Fixing Wages, and Fixing Housing Affordability — for All of Us Mar 25, 2008
Connecticut: Should Cities Use a Sales Tax? Mar 25, 2008
Florida: How Should We Tax Ourselves? Mar 21, 2008
Did someone yell "FIRE" sector? Bailouts for whose benefit?? Mar 19, 2008
The Boom-Bust Cycle Mar 19, 2008
ConservativeHome's Platform: Mark Wadsworth: Time to look at Land Value Tax? Mar 19, 2008
Earmarks, nightlights and windfalls - Individual, or Community? Mar 19, 2008
Working harder, making others richer Mar 16, 2008
The Taxpayer at 72nd and Madison Mar 16, 2008
The Basis of U.S. Poverty Statistics Mar 16, 2008
Fortunes Made in Real Estate Mar 14, 2008
Affordable housing — for all of us. What policies promote it? Mar 14, 2008
Closet Georgists and Georgites: Bill Buckley, and others Mar 10, 2008
Hotel Roosevelt For Sale at $1 Billion Mar 9, 2008
Slum Visits: Tourism or Voyeurism? (NYT, 3/9/08) Mar 9, 2008
Landholders, windfalls, productive effort and community revenue Mar 7, 2008
Affordable Family Formation and Values Voters: Social Values, or Land Values? Mar 4, 2008
Financing Municipal Spending through Sales Taxes: an Inferior "Solution" Mar 4, 2008
Who Should Get the Land Rent? Mar 2, 2008
1 in 100 behind bars ... in America! Mar 2, 2008
Ricardo's Law: The Great Tax Clawback Scam Mar 1, 2008
Private (homeowner) Associations, their Private Beaches, and the Local Assessor Mar 1, 2008
Redirecting Sprawl Feb 29, 2008
Who Benefits From This Mortgage Mess — and From the Proposed Solutions? Is there an alternative? Feb 28, 2008
Downtown Sprawl, Property Assessments and Getting the Incentives Right Feb 21, 2008
Poverty is Poison (Krugman, 2/18/08 NYT) Feb 19, 2008