In 2020, Liverpool became the first city in England to set up a land commission.
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Liverpool is the first city in England to investigate, via a land commission, how urban property can best serve everyone.
Efforts to build wealth for Black Americans could focus on property ownership.
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Some calls to resolve racial inequities in the US have raised an idea with roots more than a century old: community land trusts to assemble property for the benefit of Black Americans.
South Africa’s property regime is anchored in registered title and this can be rigid and exclusionary.
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The current debate about land reform in South Africa could open the door to reviewing urban land ownership issues.