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epistasis • today at 5:06 AM • 0 replies • view on HN

> A lot YIMBYs are also georists but a LVT wouldn't really address issues created by planning.

It wouldn't directly address those planning issues, but it aligns the financial incentives of the body politic between residential homeowners and the rest of the community. Normally residential homeowners have huge financial incentive to make housing scare and expensive, the LVT removes that financial gain from causing misery.