Land-Use Right

A land-use right is a secure, indefinite right to use a particular location, leased from the community and repriced each year to the location’s rental value. It grants the right to use land — to live there, farm it, or build on it — but never ownership of the land’s value.

This is Unitism’s primary mechanism, and its key difference from a land value tax: where a tax leaves owners holding title and paying a charge, a land-use right makes plain that the location value was never private to begin with. Everything you build is yours; the ground rent returns to the community that creates it. See the guide What Is a Land-Use Right?.