As housing crises deepen across cities, Land Value Capture is at the center of debates over housing and equitable development; this new report argues modest reforms cannot fix a system built on unequal land ownership and speculation.

https://housingevidence.ac.uk/project/who-should-own-the-value-of-land-housing-power-and-the-deep-politics-of-land-value-capture/

#urbanism #urbanplanning #LandValueCapture #AffordableHousing #PublicFinance

The keys to unlocking solutions to the housing crisis can be found in long-form reporting like this article by TheJournal.

Genuine efforts to address this can be seen, alongside a complete lack of willingness by governments to facilitate those efforts.

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#LVT

https://www.thejournal.ie/investigates-social-housing-enforcement-6932783-Jan2026

OnlineFirst - "Real estate valuations, heritage branding and the construction of the world’s most expensive city" by Uri Ansenberg:

#heritageconservation #urbaneconomy #realestatevaluations #landvaluecapture #TelAvivJaffa

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0308518X251349101

OnlineFirst - "Neoliberal urban segregation and property tax: A critical view of Santiago, Chile" by Ernesto López-Morales, Nicolás Herrera, and Matías Garretón:

#neoliberalism #urbansegregation #landvaluecapture #propertytax

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0308518X241276871

OnlineFirst - "Dilemmas of 21st century land value capture: Examining Henry George’s legacy in a new Gilded Age" by Laura Wolf-Powers:

#landvaluecapture #propertytax #HenryGeorge

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0308518X231216534

OnlineFirst - "Urban intensification and land value capture in Toronto: Conjunctural analysis, critical junctures, and developmental pathways in urban planning" by Andre Sorensen:

#criticaljunctures #conjunctures #landvaluecapture #institutions

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0308518X231216535