The EU has opened a public consultation for feedback on affordable housing policies, follow that link to get to the questionnaire, and read more about the proposals. The consultation is anonymous (or public if you like), stays open till 17 October 2025, and might take about 5 minutes to fill in, so give it a go.

The purpose is the "gathering of additional evidence and knowledge that would help the European Commission identify policy actions for the Affordable Housing Plan". Unsurprisingly, I suggested a Land Value Tax, though also just that we should just build more housing in general. Did you know Austin, Texas built more housing and managed to lower rent by 22%? It feels like it's one of the first times in years I heard about rents dropping.

At time of writing there have been 796 respondents, so if we get 8 people to reply then 1% of all suggestions could be for land value tax!

Now I realise filling in a survey may not be super effective, but I do believe any outlet to promote these ideas helps a little. Each small action matters - like pushing over dominos, you never know how far the effects might reach. He described it much better than I could, so let's let Henry George have the final word, from his book Social Problems (p243):

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power. That for every idle word men may speak they shall give an account at the day of judgment, seems a hard saying. But what more clear than that the theory of the persistence of force, which teaches us that every movement continues to act and react, must apply as well to the universe of mind as to that of matter? Whoever becomes imbued with a noble idea kindles a flame from which other torches are lit, and influences those with whom he comes in contact, be they few or many. How far that influence, thus perpetuated, may extend, it is not given to him here to see. But it may be that the Lord of the Vineyard will know.