While cities too often bypass forward thinking–or any thinking– in their quest to improve their economies and communities, there are some refreshing exceptions. In Rochester, where for many decades there existed (like in most of the rest of the country) near total disconnect about the correlation between old housing stock, sprawl, poverty, students unready or [...]
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Land-value taxation: Rochester auspiciously dips toe
Earlier this year, I wrote about the gigantically good sense of land-value taxation (LVT), and the madness of not doing LVT. (I also wrote a letter, published in City newsweekly, on the subject.) The only thing that frustrates me about the LVT is that I didn’t know about it sooner: the progressive property tax practice of taxing land [...]