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It would cost $9.9 billion to fund a year of social housing at median rent for the 554,000 unhoused persons in the United States
You could fund this with a 0.044% annual property tax on the US' $22T in landed wealth, or a 0.34% one-time tax on repatriated corporate profits
You could fund this with a 0.044% annual property tax on the US' $22T in landed wealth, or a 0.34% one-time tax on repatriated corporate profits
There are at least 11 million vacant housing units in the United States, or almost 20 times as many vacant housing units as there are homeless people 
"Adjusting for inflation, the median rent payment rose 61 percent between 1960 and 2016 while the median renter income grew only 5 percent"
I just picture Henry George staring at the camera like Jim from The Office forbes.com/sites/brendari…
When one person's foundational prerequisite to survival and flourishing is another person's ethically meaningless profit center, these are the outcomes that result
sauce for most of the above: jchs.harvard.edu/sites/default/…
