Writing on land
Weekly writing on our blog, a deep-dive series on how property is valued, and the core case for why land matters.
Progress and Poverty
Our blog on Substack, published with the Progress and Poverty Institute: weekly commentary, news and analysis on land, housing and political economy.
Latest writing
From Progress and Poverty, our blog on land, housing and political economy.
September 24, 2026
Does Georgism Work? Five Years Later
The long-awaited follow up to my guest post series at Astral Codex Ten
September 17, 2026
How Texas’s "Secret Tax" Hurts Taxpayers
The unintended consequences of real estate non-disclosure
September 3, 2026
Why do people hold vacant land out of use?
There are two things we like to point out here at the Center for Land Economics: the most valuable land is concentrated in city centers, and these are precisely the areas where land is being held out of use, as surface…
August 26, 2026
Property tax reform takes center stage — Landscape 10
LVT is more popular than ever as cities and states lay the groundwork for legislation.
August 18, 2026
Low property taxes freeze the youth out of the economy
A new paper shows low property taxes are locking young families out of homeownership.
August 10, 2026
Is AI like Petroleum, or like Pens?
The best way to regulate and tax AI depends on how it behaves
Mass Appraisal for the Masses
A 6-part series by Lars Doucet on how property gets valued, how to tell whether assessments are fair, and how land can be valued separately from buildings.
Read the series →The value of land returned to the community that makes it valuable.
How land speculation drives unaffordability, and the two ways to return land value to the public: lease the land, or tax it.