Land and Poverty in the United States: Insights and Oversights

Charles C. Geisler

Land Economics, 1995, vol. 71, issue 1, 16-34

Abstract: The paper departs from conventional treatments of poverty as a function of income and employment. It advances the view that analyses of poverty cannot be separated from those of wealth and that land influences wealth and poverty in a variety of important ways. This case is supported by revisiting the place of landed property in the distribution of wealth in America and three areas of land policy which redistribute wealth. The paper expands the definition of poverty to include land, having established ties between land and income, land and security, and finally land and the sustenance of a healthy environment.

Date: 1995
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