But yeah to again spell this out: Property tax is not Land Value Tax.
Property tax is something to put on someone's property. Property can include: the value of the hard work that went into that something. It correlates to the potential sales price of the commodity good in its entirety.
While the Land Value Tax explicitly excludes any additions made by one's Labor to the thing. So an empty plot in NY would cost the owner the same Land Tax as it'd cost someone to own a plot of land in NY with a skyscraper on it.
Very different concept. Notice that you can easily split the tax burden if you fancy vertical living.
And if ALL the money from the LVT is paid to the people who usually live in the city, then you're going to win out if you own somewhat above average amounts or less. At the cost of people who don't usually live in the city yet hold an average or greater amount of Land in it. You also get even more out of the deal if you chose vertical living.
If you care about high quality living quarters for permanent residents, it's a useful approach.
It keeps investors from freeloading off of your community becoming a nicer place.
Of course it's a question of how we get a real LVT+dividend in place, still. So I don't really suggest the LVT as a central demand, personally.
if we get a nationwide UBI in place, then some city will figure out that they just need to attract people to build a real cool community, and to keep out (or at least make em pay) predatory investors/rich kids in need of a third or fourth living quarter, they'd pass an LVT+additional dividend for permanent residents. Eventually, other places might follow that example, if it turns out as expected.
But yeah if we introduce a more social kind of money system in the first place, none of that might be needed (or it might be integrated with that money system!). This is just a useful strategy to reduce negative impact of the exponentially growing incomes that some but not many experience today thanks to the debt money system.
Either way, we gotta look at more re-instating democracy somewhere somehow in there. It's not so easy but gotta start somewhere you know! Might as well demand things that people might care to fight for together.