Democratising unused land is the biggest redistribution of wealth that any national can undertake.
Almost every country has huge tracts of undeveloped land, but keeps people kettled up in tightly zoned residential areas.
People should ask why this is normalised, and what the modern consequences of that are?
It would be nice if there was a “use it or lose it” system, and if unused land was available for purchase from public land bank by anyone at a flat rate.
The great downside of privatization of public lands is that it makes it illegal for one not to participate…not to hold land and pay taxes.
Homeless people are always on the move. Why? Because they can’t sleep in doorways…or loiter…or stand here or there. If they’re moving they’re trespassing. If they’re still, they’re loitering. If they lay down, they’re breaking other laws. In a society without public space, it is illegal to exist, unless you participate in the market. It should never be a crime to exist and not to buy land.
Go to Utah—it’s full of people out on the lands who just wish to live. To live like humans are intended…without the constraints of government or property taxes. But on the east coast or the west coast? The homeless are criminalized. And they’re criminalized because the nature of our economy says that those who do not pay have no value. It’s not that they don’t work that leads to their criminalization…it’s that they do not spend
