In Japan, train companies can earn revenue from rents in surrounding station areas on top of fares. In CA, we can invest billions in infrastructure and subsequent spikes in nearby land/property values are captured almost wholly by the people who happen to own nearby property. https://twitter.com/dangillmor/status/1078168004360171520 …
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@e_jaffe:https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2012/05/secret-tokyos-rail-success/2044/ …5 replies 17 retweets 104 likesShow this thread -
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@SFBART and@Caltrain have some of the best farebox recovery ratios in North America but you really need the land rent/land value capture + density to make the#s and system work well. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farebox_recovery_ratio …4 replies 8 retweets 80 likesShow this thread -
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Market Urbanism @MarketUrbanismI'm not sure how true this is across Japanese railroads. JR East and Central, which I think are the biggest privately owned railroads, make way more from running trains than real estate/retail https://www.jreast.co.jp/e/investor/ar/2018/pdf/ar_2018-04.pdf … https://global.jr-central.co.jp/en/company/ir/annualreport/_pdf/annualreport2015.pdf … https://twitter.com/kimmaicutler/status/1078171664087699456 …Show this thread3 replies 3 retweets 23 likesShow this thread -
Also housing isn’t celebrated as a primary wealth accumulation tool in Japan the way it is in the US. So the cultural expectation that houses must appreciate is not amplified & embedded by lending, tax & zoning policy at every level of govt like it is herehttps://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2018/03/15/why-japanese-houses-have-such-limited-lifespans …
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Kim, this country was doomed from the start when it regarded property ownership as some divine status.
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Complicated. Being a property-owning democracy meant that we didn’t follow the more unequal, concentrated and feudal structure of Latin American economies in the rest of the Americas.
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I should probably take that back, considering the history of slavery.
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