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San Francisco's Future Should Begin with a Land Value Tax

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Henry George foresaw San Francisco's housing crisis. His solution is still the way forward: a bold developmentalist orientation, starting with a land value tax to incentivize denser building.

Amogh Manjunath/Cable car, San Francisco San Francisco and Silicon Valley pride themselves on being on the cutting edge of new trends — the area’s famed ‘move fast and break things’ ethos extends to everyday conversations from barstools to brunch tables. Many San Franciscans are indeed proud of their part in ushering in the future. But in an ironic way, this yearning for the future is an old trait for the city. Henry George, a 19th-century American economist, described the excitement San Franciscans felt as they anticipated the completion of the transcontinental railroad in the way modern audi

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