You can not own land. An object can be made, and bought from the person who made it. Land wasn’t made by anyone and can’t be bought from its Creator. In legal terms it’s an area of jurisdiction. In economic terms it’s a collective resource. In ecological terms it’s part of a living system. In religious terms it’s a sacred home in which all are welcome, so long as we live moral lives.

That doesn’t mean nobody gets a home. It means secure use-rights instead of absolute dominion: your home, your farm, your business, held for the long term and passed on, inside a public trust that captures the land value the community creates. It’s the first plank of A New Deal for Zion for a reason.

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• You Can Not Own Land
• Plank 1: Land in Trust
• Plank 6: Memory, Restitution, and Use-Rights

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• You Can Not Own Land 15 May 2026