I previously wrote columns about policies that could improve housing supply in Bloomington, and mentioned land value tax as a replacement for traditional property taxes. This idea was popularized by ...

Amid a crisis in affordable housing, the century-old ideas of Henry George have gained a new currency. Tens of thousands of properties in Detroit sit unoccupied, many owned by absentee landlords and ...

A 1914 billboard in Rockford, Ill. The “land value” tax movement known as Georgism was popular and influential during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. (Photos: New York Public Library) With ...

This is a community that fully embraces the Georgism (aka Geoism or the single tax movement) social philosophy and economic theory, and thinks it’s the way to create a solid foundation for a truly ...

Joshua Vincent remembers the day in 1979 he became a Georgist. “I was at Oberlin College, and I was a socialist—I loved communism,” Mr. Vincent said on a recent evening. “I could not wait for the day ...

The U. S. people may be suckers for free lunches and one-cent sales, but they do not go out of their way to get free education. Nor do they often work up an appetite for warmed-over ideas.

Everyone deserves to have access to affordable housing. Unfortunately, in parts of the developed world, this isn’t the case. Housing prices are wildly out of control, interest rates are wild, and not ...