Land News - 9 February 2008
Who's to blame? It depends where you begin
Guardian Unlimited - UK
Mugo thought he had escaped all that but a century after his ancestors
were
turned off their land he too finds himself landless and destitute. ...
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/kenya/story/0,,2253647,00.html>
Land trust idea worth exploring
Daily Inter Lake - Kalispell,MT,USA
To its credit, the Whitefish Housing Authority has made the most progress
in creating a community land trust. That city's tireless housing
director, ...
<http://www.dailyinterlake.com/articles/2008/02/07/opinion/opinion01.txt>
My social reform agenda for the new govt (part II)
Bangkok Post - Thailand
In addition, we need to introduce wealth tax, inheritance tax, and land
tax
for land speculators and big landowners. Ways to drastically reduce income
tax ...
<http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/06Feb2008_news22.php>
China announces penalties for land-hoarding to ease housing prices
Prince George Citizen - Prince George,British Columbia,Canada
AP BEIJING - In an effort to boost supplies of housing and cool surging
costs, China's government said Tuesday it will penalize developers who
hoard land to ...
<http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=111404&Itemid=162>
CPI (ML) to fight for land
Newindpress - Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India
While one section of the society is deprived of the right to own a piece
of
land, large-scale land concentration is taking place in the state under
the
land ...
<http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IER20080204224925&Page=R&Title=Kerala&Topic=0>
Go for the shock absorber
Sify - Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India
Like the Tobin tax in currency speculations, we need a similar shock
absorber, a device that increases friction in speculative land
transactions. ...
<http://sify.com/finance/fullstory.php?id=14599235>
On the board is the place to be
The Argus.co.uk - Brighton,UK
She was a sup****ter of the single tax proposal of the political economist
Henry George and the aim of the game was to show how property owners
became
rich ...
<http://www.theargus.co.uk/redir.php?from=ec&to=2019163&l=on_the_board_is_the_place_to_be>
Tax to check land hoarding likely
Economic Times - Gurgaon,Haryana,India
The tax is aimed at discouraging builders from hoarding land and making
housing affordable for the common man. It is part of the ministry's
Budget proposal ...
<http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Tax_to_check_land_hoarding_likely/articleshow/2753834.cms>
Rwanda: Move Beyond Just Land Re-Distribution
AllAfrica.com - Wa****ngton,USA
And if the land re-distribution exercise continues at this pace the many,
previously landless people will finally own a piece of Rwandan real
estate.
....
<http://allafrica.com/stories/200802010284.html>
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