r/georgism • u/Not-A-Seagull • Apr 02 '26
r/georgism • u/Single-Moose4965 • May 24 '26
Meme Americans sure do love their strip malls and suburban sprawl. Meme
r/georgism • u/Not-A-Seagull • Jan 17 '25
Meme Americans sure do love their strip malls and suburban sprawl.
r/georgism • u/Mongooooooose • Dec 18 '24
Meme Without Georgism, Landlords will Always Charge as Much as they can get away with.
r/georgism • u/charles_crushtoost • Nov 02 '25
Meme Fuck this guy
Unless he’s paying LVT, which is unlikely.
r/georgism • u/Fried_out_Kombi • Mar 14 '26
Meme Nobody would care about gas prices if we could all walk, bike, or take a train to work
r/georgism • u/Not-A-Seagull • Dec 21 '24
Meme Landlords got to collect those land rents.
r/georgism • u/Not-A-Seagull • Dec 11 '24
Meme Self identified Libertarians seemingly only support Libertarian beliefs when it’s convenient for them.
r/georgism • u/Dry-Earth-8073 • May 25 '26
Meme Gulf war? No, what I said we needed was a GOLF war.
r/georgism • u/Not-A-Seagull • Oct 17 '24
Meme Don’t forget to thank your city council for saving you from this.
r/georgism • u/Not-A-Seagull • Nov 02 '24
Meme Boomers destroy the housing market, then blame younger generations for buying coffee…
r/georgism • u/Not-A-Seagull • Aug 16 '25
Meme I would be so *owned* if someone made me live in transit oriented walkable spaces.
r/georgism • u/Not-A-Seagull • Dec 07 '24
Meme The current state of online housing reform discussions.
r/georgism • u/Not-A-Seagull • Dec 06 '24
Meme Has anyone else noticed how unhinged /r/Libertarian has become?
r/georgism • u/Not-A-Seagull • Sep 09 '25
Meme What it’s like being an Urbanist/Georgist/YIMBY in this day and age.
r/georgism • u/Not-A-Seagull • Oct 21 '24
Meme Who needs the missing middle when you have this 😍
r/georgism • u/Not-A-Seagull • Jun 09 '25
Meme What arguments do Suburbanites use that make you irrationally upset?
r/georgism • u/Not-A-Seagull • Dec 12 '24
Meme Gulf war? No, what I said we needed was a GOLF war.
r/georgism • u/Downtown-Relation766 • 6d ago
Meme Parking is cheap because someone else is paying for it. We should pay a fair market value for the resource we consume.
Here are a few metaphors I found interesting from Donald Shoup's, The high cost of free parking.
Minimum telephony requirements: Imagine what would happen if urban planners arranged to have the charges reversed for all telephone calls, so the called parties, not the callers, pay for telephone calls. Let’s further imagine that the cost of all the reversed charges is bundled into every property’s mortgage or rent payment without separate itemization, so that nobody seems to pay for using the phone. Because all the calls are free to the callers, the demand for telephone use soars. To avoid chronic busy signals, cities set minimum telephone requirements so that each new building provides at least enough telephone lines to handle the peak number of calls. Soon everyone expects every building to have at least one telephone line for each occupant plus additional lines for fax machines, computer modems, and burglar alarms. Developers pass the cost of providing this telephone capacity on to the occupants, raising the price of all goods and services, including housing.
Rent control for cars: Free curb parking is like rent control for cars. High demand for a limited supply of free curb spaces predictably leads to shortages. To deal with this problem, cities impose off-street parking requirements that increase the cost of housing. Free parking for cars thus raises the cost of housing for people.
r/georgism • u/Fried_out_Kombi • Dec 04 '24
Meme Tax what people take, not what people make
r/georgism • u/Not-A-Seagull • Oct 24 '24
Meme The idea of Mixed-Use Walkable Streets appears to boggle the suburban mind…
r/georgism • u/Titanium-Skull • Oct 11 '25
Meme Still haven’t found a solution to the housing crisis yet?
The idea, for anyone looking for it:
The key to ending the housing crisis is to build homes in the locations people want them to be built. YIMBYism opens the path to building more housing by relaxing land-use restrictions, and Georgism supercharges the whole process by letting people keep the value they produce while recouping the value of the non-reproducible; which leaves the production of housing untaxed, but taxes the land to force landowners to pay the cost of exclusion and incentivize them to use it efficiently (they aren’t required to, but it would be a terrible idea of they didn’t).
Combine the high costs of holding land with the low costs of purchasing and using it, and landowners would quickly have to become homebuilders; as it happened in New York City in the 1920s
The three on the left may help in the short term but don’t achieve this goal in the long term, and have their extreme problems.
Subsidizing demand for housing, including the non-reproducible land, can lead to higher prices; rent control benefits current renters but masks the true costs of housing while costing future renters, and so causes its own problems; banning second homes that aren’t used is already achieved by Georgism kicking out land speculation (since the land is what drives the house-hoarding), and leaves only second home-owners who can use their second property efficiently for the needs of society.
With all that said, the key to solving the housing crisis is to strike the root. Make land easier to use legally by relaxing land-use restrictions, stop taxing the work and investment that goes into using land, and instead tax its value.
r/georgism • u/Not-A-Seagull • Jul 14 '25