Will the real District 5 housing and public safety fix please stand up? a walking tour

There certainly are truths to both current Supervisor Dean Preston's and to his determined electoral opposition's critiques of both the housing challenges facing San Francisco and of the scandalous street markets for the drug-punked folk living pleine-aire, but neither Preston nor GrowSF have reached full down to the underneath-it-all socio-economic fact that girds the city's chronic ills.

That fact is that the failure to recognize and treat locational/land values as community property leads to land speculation, alienation of a huge proportion of the population from place, and a dissociation of rents from the location they're from. Put very plainly: it is the community-generated value of land that makes SF real estate so expensive, and which if privatized creates an intransigent wealth-divide, but if socialized provisions abundant social revenue while vaporizing most unearned wealth.

Come along on a tour, Steven Buss & Grow SF and Dean Preston (and all your various followers), that explores the intersection of land rents and a myriad of social debacles. The tour's hypothesis is that control of land and land values is at the core of nearly all social domination and marginalization. The walk brings forward a pragmatic if broadly unpopular public policy proposal, namely Socialize land values and simultaneously reduce taxes on productive activity.

The walk is free. You need not be in either the pro or con Preston camps, but certainly such are welcome to attend, reflect, and pipe up.