THE CORE IDEA TO FIX THE HOUSING CRISIS:

LAND VALUE TAXATION

Is there a housing crisis? Are houses too expensive, shoddy and too small? Is there a need for many more new houses, better suited to modern lifestyles? Of course there is a crisis especially of affordability. First to be fixed is the affordability crisis. Once that is achieved, then the production of better houses and many more of them becomes possible. But getting prices down is the first priority.

WHAT OWNING A HOME MEANS NOW,

 AND HOW LVT WILL CHANGE IT

Can we imagine a better world, one where the housing crisis is ‘fixed?

What kind of payoff can home-owners expect from the LVT revolution?

HOUSES CHEAPER, BETTER, MORE.

ARE WE ANY NEARER YET?

SO FAR: AS FAR AS CITIZENS (VOTERS) SEE IT

Finance and the Housing Market in the UK: Who Wins?

Finance and the Housing Market in the UK: Who Wins?

  [Hint: Very few Owner-Occupiers] 

WHY LVT WILL NOT HAPPEN — ACCORDING TO THE ECONOMIST

WHY LVT WILL NOT HAPPEN —

 ACCORDING TO THE ECONOMIST

Here's the economic establishment scoffing at LVT. They have a point, but I hope I am showing how these problems can be overcome 

PEOPLE'S LAND TRUST--

A BRILLIANT NEW IDEA FROM THE N.E.F.

How do you burst the housing market bubble in slow motion? One idea that might be worth exploring is a People’s Land Trust and Building Society[*] (PLT hereafter) – a publicly backed but independent non-profit institution which would buy land from underneath houses and lease it to members.

WILL THIS TINY TAX OF ½% OF LAND VALUE REALLY GIVE US LOWER HOUSE PRICES? HOW?

­­­­­WILL THIS TINY TAX OF ½% OF LAND VALUE REALLY GIVE US LOWER HOUSE PRICES? HOW?

 The whole point of going through all the political perils of dumping Stamp Duty and replacing it with a small LVT is to drive down House Prices.  So will a bit of  LVT do the trick, and if so How?