Archive - Progress and Poverty

The Landscape #4: Wins aren’t always legislative, though legislative wins are on the horizon

Maryland assessors will fix chronic undervaluation of land; jurisdictions consider land value taxes. Who will be the first mover?

Aug 20 •

OpenAVMKit: a Free and Open Source mass appraisal library

Today we are launching OpenAVMKit, a new free and open source library for real estate mass appraisal.

Aug 13 •

How Baltimore Assessments Accidentally Subsidize Blight—And How We Can Fix It

Baltimore systematically undervalues vacant lots by as much as half a billion dollars, a new Center for Land Economics report finds.

Aug 6 •

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July 2025

The curious case of Qingdao, China's land value tax

What we can learn from a German colony's LVT experiment

Jul 31 •

DeSantis is Half-Right About Property Taxes

The Florida Governor is trying to undo Florida’s property taxes. Taxes on buildings are bad. Taxes on land are not.

Jul 16 •

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What don’t we know about LVT? Research that could advance Georgism.

Reviewing the current state of research into land value taxes & cultivating future research

Jul 9 •

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Stephen Hoskins

June 2025

Amateurs talk Algorithms, Professionals talk Data Cleaning

The #1 thing every assessor can do to get better results right away

Jun 30 •

LVT Landscape #3: LVT Momentum is Worldwide

It's more than South Korea's new president supporting Land Value Tax.

Jun 24 •

Why Georgists use the 🔰 mark

Humility is the soil in which the movement sprouts anew

Jun 17 •

Did South Korea just elect a Georgist President?

We'll take what we can get!

Jun 13 •

Stephen Hoskins

Want to Model a Land Value Tax Shift in Your City? Here's How.

A step-by-step guide on modeling land value taxes. Launching an open-source library to make LVT modeling more accessible.

Jun 4 •

May 2025

How Georgists Valued land in the 1900's

The lost art of the "Somers System" of land valuation

May 19 •

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