CA Common Ground
@cacommonground.bsky.social
California Chapter of Common Ground USA. Shifting the burden of tax from labor to land. All people have equal and common rights in the earth and its resources. Reform Prop 13.
Reposted by CA Common Ground
A social housing revolving loan fund could break through these barriers, get shovels in the ground and, get additional affordable housing all for little cost to the public. Private financial institutions alone in this environment can’t get get us the building boom we need.
These pictures sure aren't great. The greater San Jose - SF - Oak region should be growing.
From "Construction in San Francisco area hits rock bottom," by Nigel Hughes for CoStar Analytics."
From "Construction in San Francisco area hits rock bottom," by Nigel Hughes for CoStar Analytics."
July 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
A social housing revolving loan fund could break through these barriers, get shovels in the ground and, get additional affordable housing all for little cost to the public. Private financial institutions alone in this environment can’t get get us the building boom we need.
This survey is a great opportunity to advocate for a vision of social housing for all that shares land values across the community to lower rents for everyone. California needs publicly-owned, fiscally sustainable housing at scale for all income levels. Respond by August 8th!
Please take this @ternerhousing.bsky.social study on what social housing means to you and should mean to California berkeley.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Online Survey Software | Qualtrics Survey Solutions
Qualtrics sophisticated online survey software solutions make creating online surveys easy. Learn more about Research Suite and get a free account today.
berkeley.qualtrics.com
July 24, 2025 at 11:29 PM
This survey is a great opportunity to advocate for a vision of social housing for all that shares land values across the community to lower rents for everyone. California needs publicly-owned, fiscally sustainable housing at scale for all income levels. Respond by August 8th!
Reposted by CA Common Ground
Please take this @ternerhousing.bsky.social study on what social housing means to you and should mean to California berkeley.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Online Survey Software | Qualtrics Survey Solutions
Qualtrics sophisticated online survey software solutions make creating online surveys easy. Learn more about Research Suite and get a free account today.
berkeley.qualtrics.com
July 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Please take this @ternerhousing.bsky.social study on what social housing means to you and should mean to California berkeley.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Reposted by CA Common Ground
June treasury data came in today, and Americans paid a record $27B in tariffs & related DHS excise taxes this month—for an annualized pace of more than $300B/year
The graph of intense pain & suffering keeps getting worse
The graph of intense pain & suffering keeps getting worse
June 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
June treasury data came in today, and Americans paid a record $27B in tariffs & related DHS excise taxes this month—for an annualized pace of more than $300B/year
The graph of intense pain & suffering keeps getting worse
The graph of intense pain & suffering keeps getting worse
Happy Juneteenth! Prop 13 perpetuates racial inequity by giving tax breaks to older, wealther, whiter homeowners. To provide justice for Black Californians, we need to reform Prop 13. www.zocalopublicsquare.org/yes-prop-13-...
Yes, Prop. 13 Is Racist | Essay
The Infamous Tax Policy Disproportionately Benefits Older, Wealthier, Whiter Californians—But We Could Change That.
www.zocalopublicsquare.org
June 20, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Happy Juneteenth! Prop 13 perpetuates racial inequity by giving tax breaks to older, wealther, whiter homeowners. To provide justice for Black Californians, we need to reform Prop 13. www.zocalopublicsquare.org/yes-prop-13-...
Reposted by CA Common Ground
Could land use reform solve LA’s budget crisis? Our bill SB-79 with @scottweiner.bsky.social would increase housing near transit, increasing the City’s largest revenue source: property taxes. Read our brand-new research here: data.streetsforall.org/blog/sb79_zo...
How Land Use Reform Could Help Solve the Los Angeles Budget Crisis
Our high-level analysis shows how restrictive, exclusionary zoning has accentuated the City’s financial crisis, and how targeting upzoning could help balance budgets. Senate Bill 79 would create capac...
data.streetsforall.org
May 15, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Could land use reform solve LA’s budget crisis? Our bill SB-79 with @scottweiner.bsky.social would increase housing near transit, increasing the City’s largest revenue source: property taxes. Read our brand-new research here: data.streetsforall.org/blog/sb79_zo...
Investments in transit increase land values. Without intervention, this public investment is captured by private landowners, but if we build housing on public land near transit, that value can be redistributed to transit riders through better funding. thephiladelphiacitizen.org/septa-proper...
Two Problems, One Solution — SEPTA
Why fund SEPTA? Public transit access provides higher property values and more incentive to build much-needed housing
thephiladelphiacitizen.org
May 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Investments in transit increase land values. Without intervention, this public investment is captured by private landowners, but if we build housing on public land near transit, that value can be redistributed to transit riders through better funding. thephiladelphiacitizen.org/septa-proper...
Reposted by CA Common Ground
A long term solution to the US transit funding crisis probably lies in capturing the value that transit creates: the increase in local land value around frequent service. That's the key to delivering both transit and dense housing nearby.
Great @jongeeting.bsky.social piece, relevant nationwide.
Great @jongeeting.bsky.social piece, relevant nationwide.
Two Problems, One Solution — SEPTA
Why fund SEPTA? Public transit access provides higher property values and more incentive to build much-needed housing
thephiladelphiacitizen.org
May 12, 2025 at 3:27 PM
A long term solution to the US transit funding crisis probably lies in capturing the value that transit creates: the increase in local land value around frequent service. That's the key to delivering both transit and dense housing nearby.
Great @jongeeting.bsky.social piece, relevant nationwide.
Great @jongeeting.bsky.social piece, relevant nationwide.
One hundred years ago, the US government attempted mass deportations of immigrants for their political speech and ethnicity. Louis Post, the leader of the Georgist movement, stopped them. Today, we Georgists must once again stand up for immigrants. www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
When America Tried to Deport Its Radicals
A hundred years ago, the Palmer Raids imperilled thousands of immigrants. Then a wily official got in the way.
www.newyorker.com
April 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
One hundred years ago, the US government attempted mass deportations of immigrants for their political speech and ethnicity. Louis Post, the leader of the Georgist movement, stopped them. Today, we Georgists must once again stand up for immigrants. www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
Very encouraging to see transit value capture gaining widespread interest. By developing public land while retaining public ownership, we recapture land value uplift created by public investments, and can reinvest it for public good, not private profit.
Juan Matute is talking about value capture as a means to generate substantial funding for transit ((although that takes a long time given the need to speed up construction of buildings in California))...
April 25, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Very encouraging to see transit value capture gaining widespread interest. By developing public land while retaining public ownership, we recapture land value uplift created by public investments, and can reinvest it for public good, not private profit.
Reposted by CA Common Ground
In the Tokyo area, rail operators derive 30-50% of revenue from ground rents of developments near their stations. Common Ground California proposes California could adopt similar approaches to create more sustainable transit funding models.
buff.ly/rVa4B9U
buff.ly/rVa4B9U
April 25, 2025 at 12:51 AM
In the Tokyo area, rail operators derive 30-50% of revenue from ground rents of developments near their stations. Common Ground California proposes California could adopt similar approaches to create more sustainable transit funding models.
buff.ly/rVa4B9U
buff.ly/rVa4B9U
Reposted by CA Common Ground
Common Ground California report examines Hong Kong's transit model, which operates without government subsidies. Instead, the system funds itself through rental income from properties near stations and by selling development rights on transit-owned land.
buff.ly/rVa4B9U
buff.ly/rVa4B9U
April 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Common Ground California report examines Hong Kong's transit model, which operates without government subsidies. Instead, the system funds itself through rental income from properties near stations and by selling development rights on transit-owned land.
buff.ly/rVa4B9U
buff.ly/rVa4B9U
Happy Tax Day! Let's hear it for the Land Value Tax, the tax that decreases inequality, increases housing affordability, and promotes sustainable economic growth and productive investment!
April 15, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Happy Tax Day! Let's hear it for the Land Value Tax, the tax that decreases inequality, increases housing affordability, and promotes sustainable economic growth and productive investment!
Reposted by CA Common Ground
The Republican tariffs are an existential threat to places like Oakland Chinatown and other immigrant neighborhoods, many of which were already struggling. A lot of the product is imported and a lot of the customers are low income.
State & local policy will need to move quickly to save them.
State & local policy will need to move quickly to save them.
Asian grocery stores are a lifeline to the communities they serve. But store owners say the prospect of sweeping tariffs are threatening their ability to stock up on goods and keep prices affordable.
Asian grocery stores, a lifeline for immigrants, brace for steep new tariffs
Asian grocery stores are a lifeline to the communities they serve. But store owners say the prospect of sweeping tariffs are threatening their ability to stock up on goods and keep prices affordable.
www.npr.org
April 9, 2025 at 3:23 AM
The Republican tariffs are an existential threat to places like Oakland Chinatown and other immigrant neighborhoods, many of which were already struggling. A lot of the product is imported and a lot of the customers are low income.
State & local policy will need to move quickly to save them.
State & local policy will need to move quickly to save them.
Trump's latest round of tariffs will raise the average American's taxes by $4,700 - while he cuts taxes for billionaires. Poor people and immigrants who rely on imported groceries will be hit hardest. Import taxes are not progressive and should be condemned by all supporters of economic justice.
April 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Trump's latest round of tariffs will raise the average American's taxes by $4,700 - while he cuts taxes for billionaires. Poor people and immigrants who rely on imported groceries will be hit hardest. Import taxes are not progressive and should be condemned by all supporters of economic justice.
Reposted by CA Common Ground
Trade has ever been the extinguisher of war, the eradicator of prejudice, the diffuser of knowledge... men in one place have been enabled not only to obtain the products, but to profit by the observations, discoveries and inventions of men in other places. -HG, Protection or Free Trade
April 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Trade has ever been the extinguisher of war, the eradicator of prejudice, the diffuser of knowledge... men in one place have been enabled not only to obtain the products, but to profit by the observations, discoveries and inventions of men in other places. -HG, Protection or Free Trade
Reposted by CA Common Ground
Once again: reject McKinley, embrace George
April 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Once again: reject McKinley, embrace George
Replacing revenue-raising tariffs with the income tax, which still taxes rents, was one of Georgists' greatest accomplishments. Trump wants to take us back to the unfair 19th century economy. schalkenbach.org/why-do-georg...
Why do Georgists oppose tariffs? – RSF Website
schalkenbach.org
April 2, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Replacing revenue-raising tariffs with the income tax, which still taxes rents, was one of Georgists' greatest accomplishments. Trump wants to take us back to the unfair 19th century economy. schalkenbach.org/why-do-georg...
Reposted by CA Common Ground
It's the day for this quote!
"What protection teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war." -Henry George, "Protection or Free Trade?"
April 2, 2025 at 9:10 PM
It's the day for this quote!
The minimum tariff imposed by Trump is higher than the sales tax in most California cities- taxes that are already high thanks to unfair tax breaks for landowners. This tariff regime will massively increase prices for Californians who already struggle to afford housing. Tax land, not labor.
Trump's pulling out a giant board to list the tariffs he's charging today. Looks like 34% China, 20% EU, 46% Vietnam, 32% Taiwan, 24% Japan, 26% India, 25% South Korea, 36% Thailand, 31% Switzerland, 49% Cambodia. Most other countries hid by podium, he's counting them off 1 by 1.
April 2, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The minimum tariff imposed by Trump is higher than the sales tax in most California cities- taxes that are already high thanks to unfair tax breaks for landowners. This tariff regime will massively increase prices for Californians who already struggle to afford housing. Tax land, not labor.
Reposted by CA Common Ground
Reposted by CA Common Ground
Understanding the significance of parking requirements to everything is good Georgist thinking, pricing street parking adequately is literal georgism
December 19, 2024 at 5:42 PM
Understanding the significance of parking requirements to everything is good Georgist thinking, pricing street parking adequately is literal georgism
Reposted by CA Common Ground
One of the best thinkers on rent since Henry George.
I'm deeply saddened to share that Donald Shoup passed away last night. He was the ideal academic—curious, methodical, and concerned with turning ideas into real-world change. TAing his parking course these past few years has one of the greatest honors of my life. Rest in peace, Shoup Dogg.
February 8, 2025 at 4:59 AM
One of the best thinkers on rent since Henry George.
Rest in Peace, Professor Shoup. Donald Shoup's work on pricing parking pioneered the fusion of Georgist ideas and practical urbanist reforms. He will be missed. We strive to uphold his legacy by continuing to advocate for proper public capture of urban rents.
Rest in peace, Professor Shoup (1938-2025)
We will keep up the good work.
Share your stories and thoughts with the parking reform community here: parkingreform.org/donald-shoup
We will keep up the good work.
Share your stories and thoughts with the parking reform community here: parkingreform.org/donald-shoup
February 8, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Rest in Peace, Professor Shoup. Donald Shoup's work on pricing parking pioneered the fusion of Georgist ideas and practical urbanist reforms. He will be missed. We strive to uphold his legacy by continuing to advocate for proper public capture of urban rents.
These tariffs are a tax on the American people. Produce you buy at the grocery store, new cars, and computers will be 25% more expensive if this goes through.
*PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP SPEAKS TO REPORTERS IN THE OVAL OFFICE
*TRUMP: 25% TARIFFS ON CANADA AND MEXICO
*TRUMP:TO ANNOUNCE CANADA, MEXICO TARIFFS BECAUSE OF FENTANYL
*TRUMP: 25% TARIFFS ON CANADA AND MEXICO
*TRUMP:TO ANNOUNCE CANADA, MEXICO TARIFFS BECAUSE OF FENTANYL
January 30, 2025 at 9:05 PM
These tariffs are a tax on the American people. Produce you buy at the grocery store, new cars, and computers will be 25% more expensive if this goes through.