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Is everyone who owns land a "slumlord" now?
It's well studied that transit generates huge economic value, but that value mostly manifests as increased land value near the stations.
So why shouldn't that value - created by transit - be credited to the transit that created it?
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Is everyone who owns land a "slumlord" now?
It's well studied that transit generates huge economic value, but that value mostly manifests as increased land value near the stations.
So why shouldn't that value - created by transit - be credited to the transit that created it?