there was no particular reason to sell this land to anyone else
The same issue comes up, it just changes the terminology: land ownership --> right to use the land, and land ownership tax --> land use tax.
Reducing the transaction costs of moving to an absolute minimum was the whole point.
There are other costs of moving than the costs of packing up your belongings. For instance, the cost of not being near your family or job, or of losing the connections you have (really important for poor people who need child care and might unofficially trade in ways that requires a web of trust.)
The same issue comes up, it just changes the terminology: land ownership --> right to use the land, and land ownership tax --> land use tax.
Right- when you can no longer afford the waterfront rents, your house gets picked up and moved to someplace whose rents you can afford.
(What I dislike about the idea is that modularity really only works for small dwellings- are you going to pick up and move an office tower?- and given the huge advantage that apartment buildings have, suggests to me that it may not be that much of an improvement.)
Build a frame, move modules in and out of the frame (this was in the OP).
Ah, so it was. It seems like it only works for thin buildings, but I get the impression that many places already have it in the building code that every apartment has to have an exterior window, so that wouldn’t reflect too much of a change.
The same issue comes up, it just changes the terminology: land ownership --> right to use the land, and land ownership tax --> land use tax.
There are other costs of moving than the costs of packing up your belongings. For instance, the cost of not being near your family or job, or of losing the connections you have (really important for poor people who need child care and might unofficially trade in ways that requires a web of trust.)
Right- when you can no longer afford the waterfront rents, your house gets picked up and moved to someplace whose rents you can afford.
(What I dislike about the idea is that modularity really only works for small dwellings- are you going to pick up and move an office tower?- and given the huge advantage that apartment buildings have, suggests to me that it may not be that much of an improvement.)
Build a frame, move modules in and out of the frame (this was in the OP).
Ah, so it was. It seems like it only works for thin buildings, but I get the impression that many places already have it in the building code that every apartment has to have an exterior window, so that wouldn’t reflect too much of a change.