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BOOM: Unanimous Vote Puts Land Value Tax Enablement on Governor’s Desk • In Virginia, a unanimous senate vote puts LVT on the Governors desk. Meanwhile, Kentucky also joins the momentum as other states continue on toward LVT enablement.
Decades of Wisdom from an LVT Advocate: Josh Vincent • An interview with Josh Vincent, who has been successfully advancing Land Value Tax shifts in cities across Pennsylvania for decades and getting cities to think larger about the role of land.
Property taxes going up? The 340B Program might be partly responsible • The 340B Drug Pricing Program incentivizes tax-exempt, nonprofit health systems to expand, but that expansion can be costly for local taxpayers
Is Undervalued Vacant Land just a Baltimore problem? • We compared it against every other Maryland county
Research funding opportunities - Apply Now • The launch of the Center for Land Economics Fellowship, PPI's 2026 Progress of Ideas grant, and Henry George Foundation of Great Britain grant.
The Housing Crisis as a Land Crisis • Why rising housing costs are really about constrained urban land, and what to do about it
The Housing Ladder's Broken Promise • Housing can be affordable, or an investment, but not both.
Landscape 6 – New Year, New Legislative Sessions and Launching the CLE Board • New LVT bills launch in Maryland and New Hampshire, carryover legislation returns in New York and Minnesota, Spokane keeps pushing in Washington—and CLE officially announces its Board
Return of the Georgists: A conversation with Greg Miller and Lars Doucet • A recording from Greg Miller and Jeff Fong's live video
Will the Housing Market Crash in 2026? • The "18-year land cycle" theory predicts a crash this year. Martin Jacobson evaluates the evidence for it.
Georgism through Land Leasing • Municipal Land Leasing is real, effective, and very, very Georgist
Enacting Land Value Return in your hometown • A how-to guide for local activists
One Year of Land Value Tax Advocacy • How you can support us on Giving Tuesday
The Right-wing schism over property taxes • Youtubers, state senators, and the Charlie Kirk show go to war with the GOP establishment
BOOM: LVT Candidates Get Elected - Landscape #5 • Mayoral candidates supporting LVT win in Seattle and Buffalo as LVT grows more mainstream.
Book Review: The Land Trap by Mike Bird • Land is an even bigger deal than you thought
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, Champion of the Landless • Mamdani won with the support of the tenant class. But should he control their rent? Or redistribute it?
Stop incentivizing surface parking lots • They are draining the economic potential of our cities. We need to make them financially unsustainable.
A Georgist’s reflections on YIMBYtown • Georgism is where YIMBYism should go next.
Land value return is needed, pragmatic, and achievable • Video/transcript from the latest LVT Landscape LIVE event
The Property Tax Patchwork Impeding Our Local Governments • Local governments keep cutting special deals creating inefficient systems. What does it say about property tax incentives?
Valuing Land: The Simplest Viable Method • The least we can do to improve land valuation methodology right away
So You Want to Abolish Property Taxes • Or: "how to not turn your red state into California"
What Baltimore’s assessments taught me about cities, data, and fairness • The importance of land banks, how should we value commercial land, and more takeaways from months in the weeds on Baltimore's assessments
The Landscape #4: Wins aren’t always legislative, though legislative wins are on the horizon • Maryland assessors will fix chronic undervaluation of land; jurisdictions consider land value taxes. Who will be the first mover?
OpenAVMKit: a Free and Open Source mass appraisal library • You provide the data and the modeling decisions, we provide the tools
How Baltimore Assessments Accidentally Subsidize Blight—And How We Can Fix It • Baltimore systematically undervalues vacant lots by as much as half a billion dollars, a new Center for Land Economics report finds.
The curious case of Qingdao, China's land value tax • What we can learn from a German colony's LVT experiment
