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U.S. Housing Crisis Update: Prices, Rents Hit Historical Highs and Building Freezes – The Daily Renter share.google/IRKzFg1JOnFF...

The German Colony of Kiaochow, the Single Largest Community that only taxed Land – The Daily Renter share.google/Ds1iYD92lG0v...

(French Language Special Feature) La famine irlandaise selon Henry George: une tragédie de l’injustice foncière Editor’s note: This article is published in its entirety in French for the international audience. Contact us at dailyrenter@gmail.com if you would like to request any English translations of…

(French Language Special Feature) La famine irlandaise selon Henry George: une tragédie de l’injustice foncière or "The Irish Famine According to Henry George: A Tragedy of Land Injustice"

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The “One Big Beautiful Bill” is Signed into Law Marking a Legislative Victory for Rent-Seekers What’s in the “One Big Beautiful Bill”? Last week on July 4th, President Donald Trump signed a major reconciliation package dubbed the “One Big Beautiful Bill”. The legislation includes wide-reachi…

The “One Big Beautiful Bill” is Signed into Law Marking a Legislative Victory for Rent-Seekers

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The Many Sources of Economic Rent – Part 5: Limited Licenses I know it’s been a little while since the last part in this series, but for now this article will serve as a little reboot. There are still many sources of economic rent to be covered, and this ser…

The Many Sources of Economic Rent – Part 5: Limited Licenses
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The Lie of Sweatshops ‘Sell yourself for a slave-wage or starve.’ This is how the sweatshop debate is pitched to you—as an absurd false choice made to seem like common sense. Econ models, ethics panels, and …

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"Why are wages everywhere driven to the bare subsistence margin? Why the fuck are these families all landless, and forced to keep begging?"

A Georgist Critique of Our Current Financial System, and Some Proposals for Reform – Part 1 Editor’s note: By a happy coincidence, it was discovered the authors of both parts 1 and 2 of the series share the same birthday. For this reason, the series was scheduled to start on June 9.…

A Georgist Critique of Our Current Financial System, and Some Proposals for Reform – Part 1

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The Earth’s Gift, and Man’s Claim Check out this author’s other work on Adam’s Substack You keep what you make. Creation should earn absolute title. Stake a copper ridge, risk capital, drill, haul, smelt—every refined o…

Another new guest submission this time featuring Adam A of Adam's Substack
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Sellers Outpace Buyers by 34%, Possible Price Drop Ahead Monday Morning News Brief: The U.S. housing market is experiencing its largest imbalance on record, with nearly 500,000 more home sellers than buyers, according to a recent report by Redfin. As of …

Sellers Outpace Buyers by 34%, Possible Price Drop Ahead

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One Tax to Rule Them All The Single Tax Movement was a political movement that emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, following the publication of Progress and Poverty in 1879. Its core idea, evident in its nam…

One Tax to Rule Them All

"This brief article will explore the scientific evidence along with the potential benefits of sourcing public revenue from rent alone."

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YouTube video by The Homeless Economist Talking Trash Tuesdays are Back!

The Homeless Economist is back for Tuesday Talking Trash!
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Tom L Johnson, The Mayor who Made Cleveland Great: His History, His Ideas, and His Legacy The articles that inspired this post for further reading: The Amazing Tom Johnson, Tom L Johnson – A Pillar of Progressivism, Tom L Johnson – Best Mayor in the US, New Life in Old Citie…

Tom L Johnson, The Mayor who Made Cleveland Great: His History, His Ideas, and His Legacy

"Perhaps most importantly, Johnson implemented a new system of real estate evaluation that targeted the value of Cleveland’s non-reproducible land."

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Texas House Declaws NIMBY Veto Power in Major Housing Reform Bill The Texas House of Representatives has passed House Bill 24, a major housing reform measure that would reduce the power of local property owners to block new development, especially affordable and …

Texas House passes HB 24, a major bipartisan housing reform.

It ends a Jim Crow-era rule letting 20% of neighbors block new housing, making room for more affordable, multifamily homes.

TX has a 320K homes shortage.

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#txlege #HB24 #YIMBY #NIMBY

Indiana House Passes Property Tax Overhaul Despite Local Government Concerns The Indiana House approved a sweeping property tax reform bill Thursday, April 17 that aims to lower costs for many homeowners and businesses, while raising concerns about major funding losses for …

Indiana House Passes Property Tax Overhaul Despite Local Government Concerns

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Farm Bankruptcies Spike Amid Rising Costs and Trade Turmoil Farm bankruptcies are surging across the U.S. as high input costs, falling crop prices, and mounting trade tensions push more agricultural operations into financial distress. According to Bloomberg…

Farm Bankruptcies Spike Amid Rising Costs and Trade Turmoil

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The LVT Landscape #2: Land Value Tax Hits the News A bill passes a state senate! And, more media coverage and interest grows for land value taxes. By Greg Miller Hello All, Welcome to the second edition of LVT Landscape, your update on the lat…

The LVT Landscape #2: Land Value Tax Hits the News

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The White House is Extorting Ukraine for its Minerals: How Trump’s Past is a Sign for the Present and the Future Trump and Zelenskyy argue in the White House, per NPR Donald Trump’s time as the president of the United States has been controversial. His repeated threatening of tariffs against several countries…

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The Three Forms of Wealth: Produced, Consumed and Extracted Mainstream economics teaches us that the economy runs on production and consumption. Producers produce, consumers consume. One creates goods and services, the other pays for and uses them. Between …

The Homeless Economist on wealth extraction: Extractors are the oligarchy. Extractors are the deep state. Extractors are the “Elders of Zion”.
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Trump’s New Tariffs: What Renters and Workers Need to Know about “Liberation Day” On April 2, President Trump announced a sweeping set of tariffs, setting a 10% general tariff on all imported goods to the U.S., excluding Canada and Mexico, along with targeted tariffs on addition…

Trump’s New Tariffs: What Renters and Workers Need to Know about “Liberation Day”

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"Economists widely agree that increasing housing supply improves affordability and diversity, though opposition from some local homeowners remains strong."
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"If we implemented the land tax reform, Indiana would experience a population boom and this policy could, in time, grow Indiana cities into thriving metropolises that could compete with other Midwestern giants like Cincinatti, Detroit and Chicago."
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"The just and efficient alternative is land value tax and more broadly, taxes on natural resources or the exploitation of 'the commons'."
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"Georgists argue that the results of people’s hard work rightfully belong to their individual creators and should not be taken by the government"
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Why Georgists Should Help Lead the Sortition Movement Elections elevate rentiers and the servants of rentiers. They always have. They always will. Even with campaign finance reform, the people most able to put their lives on hold to campaign or serve …

Check out the new post from the Daily Renter on voting reform

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A Taxonomy of North American Landlords and Rent Seekers “You wanna put a taxonomy land?!” – Landlord I’ve seen in the wild economy, during my safaris into the concrete jungles of American cities, various species of rent-seekers t…

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From the georgism community on Reddit: A Taxonomy of North American Landlords and Rent Seekers Explore this post and more from the georgism community

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@chairmanshenandoah.bsky.social is announcing a hunger strike over the recent tariffs. Read all about it in the Daily Renter
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Vincent van Gogh, The Good Samaritan - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vincent_van_Gogh_-_The_Good_Samaritan,_1890_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

The intelligence required for the solving of social problems is not a mere thing of the intellect. It must be animated with the religious sentiment and warm with sympathy for human suffering. It must stretch out beyond self-interest, whether it be the self-interest of the few or the many. -HG

A new report from the FHCCI highlights a growing trend in the state’s real estate market: investors increasingly dominate single-family homeownership, pushing affordability further out of reach for many Hoosiers

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