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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.
Jan 13
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Martin Jacobson
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Return of the Georgists: A conversation with Greg Miller and Lars Doucet
A recording from Greg Miller and Jeff Fong's live video
Jan 14
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Greg Miller
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Jeff Fong
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Lars Doucet
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Georgism through Land Leasing
Municipal Land Leasing is real, effective, and very, very Georgist
Jan 6
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Jeff Fong
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No Silver Bullet Solutions to the Werewolf Crisis
Jan 24, 2023
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Lars Doucet
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Book Review: The Land Trap by Mike Bird
Nov 13, 2025
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Lars Doucet
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Singapore: Economic Prosperity through Innovative Land Policy
Apr 18, 2022
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Stephen Hoskins
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So You Want to Abolish Property Taxes
Sep 2, 2025
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Lars Doucet
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Land value tax in online games and virtual worlds: A how-to guide
Jun 6, 2022
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Lars Doucet
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Valuing Land: The Simplest Viable Method
Sep 18, 2025
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Lars Doucet
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Mass Appraisal
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Valuing Land: The Simplest Viable Method
The least we can do to improve land valuation methodology right away
Sep 18, 2025
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Lars Doucet
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OpenAVMKit: a Free and Open Source mass appraisal library
Today we are launching OpenAVMKit, a new free and open source library for real estate mass appraisal.
Aug 13, 2025
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Lars Doucet
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How Georgists Valued land in the 1900's
The lost art of the "Somers System" of land valuation
May 19, 2025
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Lars Doucet
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Mass Appraisal For The Masses: The Basics
How are property tax assessments calculated, and how can we know if they're fair? Let's find out!
Mar 10, 2025
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Lars Doucet
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LVT Landscape
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BOOM: LVT Candidates Get Elected - Landscape #5
Mayoral candidates supporting LVT win in Seattle and Buffalo as LVT grows more mainstream.
Nov 17, 2025
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Greg Miller
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Land value return is needed, pragmatic, and achievable
Video/transcript from the latest LVT Landscape LIVE event
Sep 29, 2025
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Lars Doucet
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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?
Aug 20, 2025
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Greg Miller
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LVT Landscape #3: LVT Momentum is Worldwide
It's more than South Korea's new president supporting Land Value Tax.
Jun 24, 2025
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Greg Miller
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Enacting Land Value Return in your hometown
A how-to guide for local activists
Dec 18, 2025
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Lars Doucet
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Launching CivicMapper: Visualizing Land Values in 3D
A new tool for urban analysis utilizing 3D interactive maps of land and property values
Dec 10, 2025
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Greg Miller
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One Year of Land Value Tax Advocacy
How you can support us on Giving Tuesday
Dec 2, 2025
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Lars Doucet
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Greg Miller
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The Right-wing schism over property taxes
Youtubers, state senators, and the Charlie Kirk show go to war with the GOP establishment
Nov 20, 2025
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Lars Doucet
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BOOM: LVT Candidates Get Elected - Landscape #5
Mayoral candidates supporting LVT win in Seattle and Buffalo as LVT grows more mainstream.
Nov 17, 2025
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Greg Miller
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Book Review: The Land Trap by Mike Bird
Land is an even bigger deal than you thought
Nov 13, 2025
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Lars Doucet
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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?
Nov 5, 2025
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Russell Richie
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Stop incentivizing surface parking lots
They are draining the economic potential of our cities. We need to make them financially unsustainable.
Oct 28, 2025
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Greg Miller
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