You could flip the positions in this meme and it’d be true as well, at least when it comes to land use. YIMBYism helps open the way for efficient land use that serves as a core main goal of Georgism (amplified by the fact that more lax zoning increases land values and thus revenue for a land-value-taxing government), while Georgism helps YIMBYism by kicking out land speculators who waste a necessary-for-life, finite resource instead of using their parcels efficiently for the benefit of society. The revenue can then be used to cut taxes which harm the same work and investment needed to build housing, from income taxes on labor to the building/capital improvement portion of the property tax; all of which directly harm homebuilding by making production more expensive.
A similar story exists with transit and its windfalls, where new transit lines increase land values. As it stands these increased values currently go as private unearned incomes to nearby landowners instead of the public purse; that public purse which is often responsible for the transit investment in the first place. Georgism allows public bodies to recoup the gains from their public investment to continue funding themselves and further investment, known as the Henry George Theorem. LVT (and Georgism’s desire to deal with natural monopolies) can massively improve transit.
Taken altogether, Georgism and YIMBYism dovetail excellently together, and bring each other to their best.



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