Unitism Launches to Help Governments Fund Public Services

Unitism announces the launch of an organization helping governments fund public services through community created land value rather than taxing work — and stays engaged until the reform is working.

Canada, July 11, 2026 -- A New Kind of Organization Amid Growing Global Housing and Fiscal Challenges

Unitism announced the launch of its organization dedicated to helping governments, nations, and cities develop public revenue systems based on the value of land and natural resources rather than relying primarily on taxes on wages, labor, and productive enterprise. The announcement comes as housing affordability, rising real estate prices, and fiscal pressures continue to shape policy discussions across many parts of the world.

Founded by Martin Adams, author of Land: A New Paradigm for a Thriving World, Unitism brings together an international team of economists, researchers, policy analysts, urban development specialists, and data scientists who focus on land value economics, housing systems, public finance, and long term policy implementation.

Unitism describes itself not as an advisory firm in the traditional sense but as an implementation partner. Governments hire the firm to achieve a result, and the team remains engaged — through measurement, policy design, legislation, and administration — until the new system is live and working. The firm has skin in the game: its engagements are defined by outcomes, not deliverables.

Connecting Housing Affordability and Public Finance

According to Unitism, many of today’s economic challenges share a common structural cause. Rising housing costs, increasing inequality, and pressure on government finances are often addressed independently through separate policy initiatives. Unitism’s approach instead examines how land value created collectively by communities can become a sustainable source of public revenue.

The organization’s work centers on helping governments evaluate how land values, which increase through public investment, infrastructure, population growth, and community development, can contribute to funding public services while reducing reliance on taxes applied to wages, employment, and productive investment.

“We live in a world of incredible abundance; and yet most people don't have the money to fully participate in that abundance. Why?” said Martin Adams, founder of Unitism.

A Focus on Practical Government Implementation

Unitism’s work spans four principal areas including research and economic analysis, policy design, education and training, and implementation.

Its research capabilities include measuring land value, modelling economic rent, housing affordability analysis, revenue forecasting, and distributional modelling that evaluates how proposed reforms may affect households and businesses.

The organization’s policy design work includes land value taxation systems, community land trusts, natural resource revenue sharing frameworks, and assessment methodologies designed to support long term implementation.

Beyond policy development, Unitism sees reforms through to completion via transition roadmaps, stakeholder engagement strategies, public communication support, and ongoing monitoring as reforms move from legislation into practice.

Building Upon Established International Experience

Rather than proposing an entirely new economic framework, Unitism draws upon examples of policies that have operated in various forms for decades across multiple jurisdictions.

The company notes that Singapore has long funded significant portions of its housing system through publicly held land, while Alaska and Norway distribute portions of natural resource wealth directly to citizens. Additional jurisdictions including Canberra have adopted approaches that shift taxation away from productive activity and toward land values.

This historical experience forms part of the evidence base that informs Unitism’s consulting engagements with governments seeking long term fiscal reform.

“Everything an economy produces gets divided three ways: into rent, into wages, and into returns on real investment. Land doesn’t produce anything, so every extra dollar bound up in rent and mortgage payments is a dollar that can no longer show up in a paycheck or fund a productive business. When rent grows, everything else shrinks,” Adams said.

Combining Academic Research with Policy Delivery

Unitism states that its model differs from traditional advisory organizations by combining academic research with hands-on implementation throughout the policy process — and by staying accountable for the outcome rather than the analysis.

Its multidisciplinary team includes professors of economics, philosophy, and political sociology, PhD researchers specializing in land rents and housing systems, analysts developing microsimulation models alongside national statistical agencies, urban development experts, and data scientists.

According to the company, this structure enables governments to move from economic measurement and policy analysis through legislative design, stakeholder engagement, and implementation with a single specialist team that sees the work through from start to finish.

The company also emphasizes that its mission is centered on practical implementation rather than solely producing research or policy recommendations.

Expanding Public Access to Economic Education

In addition to government consulting, Unitism operates an open educational platform designed to make economic concepts accessible to policymakers, researchers, students, and the public.

Resources available through the platform include plain language educational guides, peer reviewed research, interactive economic tools, a city simulation game based on published research, and the complete online edition of Land: A New Paradigm for a Thriving World.

The company says these resources are intended to encourage broader understanding of how land value influences housing affordability, investment, public finance, and long term economic development.

“Ask why wages feel stagnant and businesses struggle to invest, and you'll find the same answer: the money is already spoken for. The more of a community’s income that gets absorbed by rent and land prices, the less is left over to pay workers and to reward the people who actually build things. Rent doesn’t create wealth, it’s first in line to collect it,” Adams said.

“And that cost compounds, because rent is paid before anything else, every dollar it absorbs is a dollar that can't go into wages or into returns on productive investment. Communities that share their land value flip this around. Work and enterprise keep more of what they create, because the value nobody earned is no longer allowed to eat the value everybody did.”

About Unitism

Unitism works with governments, nations, and cities to design and implement revenue systems based on community created land value and natural resources instead of relying primarily on taxes on work and productive enterprise. The firm provides research, policy design, education, and implementation support while publishing free educational resources, peer reviewed research, interactive economic tools, a city simulation game, and the complete online edition of Land: A New Paradigm for a Thriving World.

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