[heymartinadams]

Problem: “63% said an inability to afford rent was the primary culprit”

Solution: redistribute rents

How: land-value taxation or municipal land trusts + basic income

[frockington1]

Wouldn't a land-value tax just increase rent? I would increase rent directly proportional to a land-value tax if I were a landlord in the city.

[davidw]

LVT taxes the land. If you have 1 unit on 1 acre... it's going to pay the same amount in taxes as 10 units. So it's an incentive to use the land intensely enough in order to pay less in taxes.

[Gigachad]

Wouldn't high density living also explode land value though?. The block of land I live on would be worth $10M+.

[vletal]

Sure it would. Yet not to the full extent. The system is complex, not all people rent, not all home owners would be hit by the tax equally, ...