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Thursday 22 February 2018

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 

Wednesday 14 February 2018

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.

Monday 12 February 2018

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?