How council makes housing unaffordable
This is a research deep dive episode where host Matt Stickland goes into the weeds to explain how low property taxes make housing less affordable. Did Matt get anything wrong? Here are his sources:
Oates (1969): the effects of property taxes and local public spending on property values
Mieszkowski (1972): The property tax: an excise tax or a profits tax?
Oats & Schwab (2009): The case for a land value tax
Dye & England (2010) Assessing the theory and practice of land value taxation
Bourassa (1990): The land value tax and housing development: A case study of Pittsburgh
Tideman (1994): The…
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