Land, Housing, and Taxation

The cluster is a thinking and networking space to unpack the triad relationship between land, housing, and taxation from a multidisciplinary and comparative perspective.

A view of Regent’s Canal in King’s Cross, London, UK

1 April 2024

Overview

We are interested in exploring the various forms in which taxation can be understood as a redistributive mechanism in a context of growing inequality.

Our intellectual agenda will engage with (but not exclusively):

The impacts of taxation on land values, land uses and housing production, including alternative and community-led models of housing production.
The role of local fiscal policies and regulations on urban governance, keeping in mind the transcalar and multi-tiered institutional relations of the state.
The role of financial and regulatory tools in redistributing access to affordable housing.
The driving processes of re-/de-commodification of housing systems, and their influence on the welfare redistribution.
The importance of comparative studies in the theorisation of the relationships between land, housing, and taxation.

We investigate taxation as the diversity of tax instruments and fiscal regulations that target the ownership of land and housing, the different types of tenures and rent-based revenues, and the state-regulated transaction and transformation of land and housing assets for the purpose of capturing, distributing, or facilitating the accumulation of financial value and public revenue.

People

Elena Besussi, The Bartlett School of Planning
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Dr Sonia Arbaci Sallazzaro, The Bartlett School of Planning
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Outputs

Over the next two years we aim to organise:

Cluster’s term discussions – to establish bridges and complementary approaches, to make use of our in-house inter-disciplinary knowledge/methodologies.
One internal workshop for BSP staff and students, including synergies with other research clusters to foster shared interests.
One public event inviting scholars, practitioners, and policy makers, to position BSP within other disciplinary approaches to the topic.

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