I'm hardly a personal expert on the UK situation but I'm in touch with a lot of great people over there who are. Was in Devon a few months ago with some great folks talking on the subject.

Had a little fun with the writing prompt

Unless they're immortal vampire hedge funds, then they might have sufficiently low discount rates and long investment horizons

Greg spends a *lot* of time talking to city councilors, and legislators, and staff. We're well aware that most of the energy for legislative wins comes from having lots of very offline talks

Scott Alexander gave us a small grant to start us up, but our chief funding comes from the Center for the Study of Economics.

As for strategy, I'm only one person on the project. My colleague is Greg Miller, formerly of Housing and Urban Development in the last administration. He leads Baltimore

Honestly this other library of ours is probably even more important (and simpler!)

github.com/gregmiller00...

My colleague Greg Miller made it. If existing assessments are good enough already, this just models the tax shift

(That's from this article I wrote trying to redirect anti-property-tax energy in my home state of Texas:
progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/so-you-wan...)

Don't know how things are across the pond, but on this side of the Atlantic the winners vs. lowers chart looks pretty politically tractable:

And yeah, lots of state law (including in my own state, Texas) blocks the kind of reforms we want, but we have to start by generating interest. If there's enough hunger for the reform, we can get the enablement legislation we need to implement locally.

But always open to suggestions if there's anyone who's not on our radar yet!

The banner covered our report as did some other local outlets! We're working closely with various people and group in in both Baltimore and Maryland.

we can have nice things if we try

shit i missed this release. okay well if we get georgism in the next few years this specific library is likely how bsky.app/profile/lars...

Not even kidding 50% of my political theory of change is "do the math, put it on a map"

But we've already been able to cut down our *own* time to produce a report by a whole lot, and if we can build up a community of volunteers we can eventually copy-paste the procedure across the country.

Yeah, doing my best on that front, my tools aren't super user friendly just yet, but I'm hoping we'll get there over time.