https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-progr...
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/does-georgism-work-is-...
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/does-georgism-work-par...
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/does-georgism-work-par...
A quick summary from wikipedia of Georgism:
> Georgism (known historically as the single tax movement) is an economic ideology holding that, although people should own the value they produce themselves, the economic rent derived from land – including from all natural resources, the commons, and urban locations – should belong equally to all members of society.
Here rent and land are given precise definitions.
Personally I found the blogs above a very interesting read (or listening).
also available in podcast form
https://sscpodcast.libsyn.com/your-book-review-progress-and-...
https://sscpodcast.libsyn.com/does-georgism-work-is-land-rea...
https://sscpodcast.libsyn.com/does-georgism-work-part-2-can-...
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There's many legal approaches to the problem: fine landlords huge amounts when they have unused space (or when they don't have enough people per square meters, such as when they employ "anti-squat" security agencies), requisition without compensation all empty dwellings in order to house everyone (with public money paying for repairs if needed), forcing by law landlords to lease their empty dwellings for a reasonable price... Or simply decriminalize squatting uninhabited dwellings: if the police stops hunting down people looking for a house in order to jail them, there will be considerably less homeless people from one month to the next.
It takes quite a lot of resources (security doors, guards, alarms, police) in order to ensure people stay homeless. The problem is by framing housing as a "crisis" (which is an invention, as the statistics show), we're shooting tons of money at not fixing the problem: homeless shelters are famously unsafe and indecent, and don't even get me started on government subsidies for hotel owners (via the 115 programs) to make business out of misery while providing terrible living conditions. In this case, i believe "less is more".
Of course personal possessions can and should be protected and there are in fact regulations (even in places where squatting is legal) protecting your residence against burglary or people coming to live in your place. This is a well-defined problem that has nothing to do with private property as we anarchists understand it.
Private property is precisely the institutional system that gives power to someone else over your home. We anarchists believe the land belongs to those who inhabit/work it and no higher superstitional paper (property title) is valid.