Seeing the Cat

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Housing Affordability

• A "Fighting Leaflet" from another time and place, relevant today Aug 22, 2020
• "Proputty" — A Lecturette in Rhyme, by J. W. Bengough Jul 4, 2020
• Saving for Retirement Nov 22, 2018
• Incentive Taxation: How Do We Nudge the Private Sector into Producing Needed Housing? Oct 15, 2017
• Another Wise LTE, from 1932 Oct 14, 2017
• Is a land value tax the solution to our housing affordability problem? Nov 26, 2013
• Faced With Apartment Shortage, Brokers Get Creative Feb 13, 2013
• Paying Top Dollar for Condos, and Leaving Them Empty Feb 13, 2013
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: December 26 — Cardinal Vaughan Dec 26, 2012
• Individual Account Retirement Plans: An Analysis of the 2010 Survey of Consumer Finances | EBRI Oct 27, 2012
• Film, available online: Real Estate 4 Ransom Sep 1, 2012
• Young and foolhardy? Homeowners under 40 more likely to be underwater - Boston Real Estate Now - Boston.com Aug 29, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: August 7 — Thorold Rogers and Ede Aug 7, 2012
• NYT 99 years ago ... a "Lower Rents" bill in Albany Jun 27, 2012
• Resource Rentals for Revenue — The 3 R's of fixing our economy Jun 13, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 9 — Dickens Apr 9, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 31 — Adam Smith Mar 31, 2012
• The Unearned Increment, and Land Speculation Mar 25, 2012
• Developer Inks 99-Year Lease Mar 23, 2012
• Bob Andelson: The Earth is the Lord's! Mar 19, 2012
• The Land Questions: #20 Affordable Housing Feb 20, 2012
• A 1938 NYT Letter to the Editor: Collecting Ground Rent Feb 16, 2012
• Design a Fix for the Housing Market - NYTimes.com Feb 13, 2012
• How to Bring The Cost of Housing Back within Reach of All American Families (1978) Feb 7, 2012
• Land Speculation Jan 19, 2012
• LTE: Rising Rate of Poverty - NYTimes.com Sep 26, 2011
• Are Public Sector Jobs, by Definition, a Drain on the Economy? Sep 24, 2011
• U.S. Seeks to Rent Out Its Foreclosures Aug 13, 2011
• Tax property, not people, for a fairer society May 2, 2011
• A Better Way to Do Housing Apr 11, 2011
• Public Ownership of essential utilities Feb 10, 2011
• Financing the Subway Jan 16, 2011
• Mason Gaffney: Denying Inflation: Who, Why, and How Oct 15, 2010
• FIRE Sector Strikes Again: Resale Fees That Only Developers Could Love Sep 13, 2010
• Housing Choice - Help Today’s Owners or Future Buyers? Sep 5, 2010
• Suburban Sprawl and the Decline of Social Capital Aug 26, 2010
• The End of Poverty? Think Again! Aug 24, 2010
• Michael Hudson: The Road To Serfdom (2006) Aug 9, 2010
• The Larger Struggle - David Brooks Jun 16, 2010
• What an Estate Looks Like to the Taxman Jun 14, 2010
• Is Our Tax System Helping Us Create Wealth? Jun 5, 2010
• Mother’s Eyes See Trouble With Tax Rolls May 31, 2010
• So how do we reduce our reliance on oil? May 31, 2010
• It is time for a paradigm shift on housing Apr 9, 2010
• NYT LTE's: It Happened on Wall St. and Main St. Apr 9, 2010
• NPR: Should gov't push owning a home? | Marketplace Mar 23, 2010
• Who is prospering from Prop 13? Mar 17, 2010
• How should we-the-people pay for ... snow removal? Feb 15, 2010
• Which part of a house is unaffordable? Feb 12, 2010
• Prosper California Tax Reform Initiative Jan 31, 2010
• Reading Lowell Harriss Jan 31, 2010
• Tishman Speyer Surrenders Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Jan 26, 2010
• I hate to disagree with Chip Case, but I must Jan 13, 2010
• First-time homebuyers as sharecroppers Nov 9, 2009
• Krugman: How Did Economists Get It So Wrong? Sep 4, 2009
• Follow the Money: A Close Look at Recent Southern California Foreclosures Aug 18, 2009
• Is California Over-Taxed? Jun 7, 2009
• Getting By in Oregon: How Much Does It Take? Jun 3, 2009
• Land Value Taxation — Connecticut's legislature just passed enabling legislation for New London to try it! Jun 3, 2009
• What You Get for... $465,000 - NYTimes.com Jun 3, 2009
• What is the point of sending stimulus money to a state which chooses not to tax its land value?? May 21, 2009
• Gary Schilling's idea ... May 14, 2009
• 1 in 5 Pennsylvania Families Lack Sufficient Income to Meet Their Most Modestly Defined Needs May 14, 2009
• The Rich List May 5, 2009
• Council of Georgist Organizations Conference: Cleveland 2009 May 5, 2009
• Just What is Home Equity? Feb 25, 2009
• Lawson Purdy: The Influence of Taxation on the Prosperity of Cities Feb 16, 2009
• Lawson Purdy: The Influence of Taxation on the Prosperity of Cities Feb 16, 2009
• Sharecropping on Madison Avenue, NYC Feb 3, 2009
• City to purchase 50 foreclosed homes - Stamford News - The Stamford Times Feb 2, 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
• The Landlord's OTHER Prayer Jan 17, 2009
• Landlording in NYC: "We don't pay taxes, only the little people pay taxes." Jan 3, 2009
• Madoff Greatest Ponzi Scheme? Real Estate Magnitudes Greater — The Inspired Economist Dec 30, 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
• 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
• Change Needed to End Boom-Bust Cycles Nov 27, 2008
• On a well-provisioned ship, how is it that 6% of us consume ~25% of the resources? Nov 10, 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
• I'm not thrilled with our choices in November Oct 28, 2008
• Bob Herbert: A Fool’s Paradise 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
• Another benefit of civilization and government Oct 12, 2008
• When a mortgage rate adjusts, who gets what? (#2 in the Mortgage series) Sep 25, 2008
• Let's talk about mortgages - #1 Sep 25, 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
• A Budget is a Moral Document Sep 24, 2008
• Living paycheck to paycheck, living bonus to bonus, and trickle-down economics Sep 23, 2008
• An Election Season Thought Sep 22, 2008
• How Much Oil Do We Use? Sep 22, 2008
• Some thoughts about paying taxes... Sep 22, 2008
• Vital Statistics: Your Home's 'Days Per Gallon' of Fuel 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 Big (and unnoticed) Winners in the Mortgage Crisis Sep 20, 2008
• David Cay Johnston: The Prospering Swedes Sep 18, 2008
• LA Times: Can California survive 'no new taxes'? Sep 17, 2008
• Being born into the Landed Gentry is like holding the winning lottery ticket Sep 6, 2008
• David Cay Johnston: Income Data and the Future of the Nation Sep 4, 2008
• What does an infant cost a young family? 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
• David Cay Johnston: Can You Hear Opportunity Knocking? Aug 26, 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
• Why are the Working Poor Poor? 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
• new Lincoln Institute Study — Property Tax Assessment Limits: Lessons from 30 Years of Experience Jul 22, 2008
• Pragmatic Politics: Proposition 13 Jul 22, 2008
• Low Rent, East Side Location - See Landlord, if You’re Famous Jul 22, 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
• WealthandWant.com: The Wealth Concentration Tables Jul 16, 2008
• The Housing Crash and the Retirement Prospects of Late Baby Boomers Jul 5, 2008
• Leona Helmsley’s Fortune May Go to Benefit Dogs Jul 4, 2008
• Bill Gates: How Can He Best Use His Wealth and Influence to Help the World? Jul 3, 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
• Luke Russert's tribute to his father: a new political party? Jun 18, 2008
• The Landed Gentry Jun 16, 2008
• Why did Big Russ have to work two full-time jobs? Jun 15, 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
• Is LVT the answer to all our problems? May 28, 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
• 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
• 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
• Fixing Wages, and Fixing Housing Affordability — for All of Us Apr 1, 2008
• Is LVT the answer? It depends what the question is. Apr 1, 2008
• Working harder, making others richer Apr 1, 2008
• Affordable housing — for all of us. What policies promote it? Mar 31, 2008
• Getting Poverty Wrong, by Steven Malanga, City Journal 3/21/08 Mar 30, 2008
• Private (homeowner) Associations, their Private Beaches, and the Local Assessor Mar 30, 2008
• Who Benefits From This Mortgage Mess — and From the Proposed Solutions? Is there an alternative? Mar 30, 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
• Working harder, making others richer Mar 16, 2008
• The Basis of U.S. Poverty Statistics Mar 16, 2008
• Bob Herbert's 3/11 column, Sharing the Pain: The "Near-Poor" Mar 15, 2008
• Fortunes Made in Real Estate Mar 14, 2008
• Affordable housing — for all of us. What policies promote it? Mar 14, 2008
• True Irish — and all of us Mar 14, 2008
• Closet Georgists and Georgites: Bill Buckley, and others Mar 10, 2008
• Slum Visits: Tourism or Voyeurism? (NYT, 3/9/08) Mar 9, 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
• Who Benefits From This Mortgage Mess — and From the Proposed Solutions? Is there an alternative? Feb 28, 2008
• Americans and Golf, and the local assessor Feb 24, 2008
• Assessments that favor the big landholders Feb 23, 2008
• Downtown Sprawl, Property Assessments and Getting the Incentives Right Feb 21, 2008
• The College, the Beach, and the Cottagers Feb 21, 2008
• How do we eliminate poverty? Feb 19, 2008
• Poverty is Poison (Krugman, 2/18/08 NYT) Feb 19, 2008
• Robert Reich's NYT column "Totally Spent" Feb 15, 2008