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The Invisible Role Taxes Play in America’s Housing Shortage

Large and small American cities are littered with vacant plots of land. The Wall Street Journal explains the unseen role property taxes play in the country’s housing shortage and discusses the concept of a land value tax.

 

Financing & Economics,
Housing
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