**To protect livelihoods we need a legal contract of ownerships.** - If no body owns land, how do we stop others from stealing it? The only thing that really stops people from coming in and stealing your land is the legal contract that says it is yours. - If you don’t have that legal contract, there is nothing to stop anyone from coming in and taking what is yours. I recognise that owning land is mostly unfair as its owned by rich aristocratic families. But, individuals still need to own land in order to slowly change the statistics of ownership across the world. - Half of the UK is owned by [1%](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjdosCT1rPyAhVIhf0HHbnkDa8QFnoECAIQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fmoney%2F2019%2Fapr%2F17%2Fwho-owns-england-thousand-secret-landowners-author&usg=AOvVaw3cXxuRstGNPy8bPLcSmVxE) of the population. This is because of estates and cooperation’s control the rest of England. It is important that individuals get to own land, to stop the large owners from controlling all the land. The only way to stop this, is for it to be legal to own land.

**Nobody should individually be able to own land, yet this does not mutually exclude the opinion that _everyone_ should own land** - Firstly it must be noted that no one can actually “own land” in our legal system, rather one only owns the rights to land. No one can directly own (that is, have complete claim to) the land itself. - However this is how I will continue to refer to land ownership for the sake of conversation. - It is important to distinguish between public and private land ownership. **Private Ownership** - Property or land is privately owned by individuals or private companies. - It caters to the needs of the few (the owner) and disregards or even violates the needs of the many. - Enhances the personal freedom of the owners, but at the expense of the freedom of the many. - Much of privately owned land or institutions is publically funded but neither publically owned nor publically beneficial. - It leads to unaffordability in land, products, services and ammenities as well as being a substantial factor in homelessness and the [housing crisis](https://www.thelandmagazine.org.uk/articles/land-and-housing-crisis). **Public Ownership** - Public ownership is also sometimes known as nationalisation. - Land or establishments are communally owned by a government-run organisation for the benefit of all members of society. - Resources can be distributed fairly, and more effectively based on need. - This includes workers wages which are distributed more equitably without the hierarchy of an individual ownership of the company. - Land can be used more productively according to the needs of the many in society, and property is not hoarded by the wealthy with no need for such extensive estate. - Decisions about the use of land are made collectively and democratically. - The rich are often detached and disenfranchised from the needs and workings of the industries they own, so collective ownership eradicated the problems associated with this.