Notions of public use—of what were legitimate government purposes—were under continuous lawyerly attack ... a source and emblem of much of what land ownership would mean in American society.

Nearly 46 million acres of forest and farmland are held by foreign investors, including by countries hostile to America, ...

The agriculture secretary announced a plan to limit Chinese and foreign purchases of farmland as part of its national ...

Agriculture Secretary Brooke L. Rollins, alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Attorney General Pam Bondi and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem unveiled a seven-point national security plan ...

Considering all the recent political hubbub, foreign ownership of U.S. land is small and China is just a bit player. Still, foreign ownership is growing and at an accelerated pace.. As of December ...

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's 2021 report on foreign ownership of American land, Chinese investors held 383,935 acres—a total of 366 parcels of land owned by 146 separate ...

Some wealthy Americans privately own significant swaths of U.S. land, according to “The Land Report 100” put out by the Magazine of the American Landowner at the end of 2022.

Critical, too, to the ownership scene is land leaving agriculture – more than 1.5 million acres a year, on average, of cropland and range from 1992 through 2012.

You cannot recount the history of land ownership in America without telling a story of segregation and exclusion. Throughout the 20th century, practices like redlining and racialized zoning laws ...

Corporate ownership of land, whether foreign or domestic, isn’t good for our rural communities either. It results in depopulation, higher poverty, fewer jobs, and loss of critical infrastructure ...

In the U.K., property ownership in general is falling slightly, and it is on the rise for older demographics. For those under the age of 34, it is utterly collapsing.