Promoting a Wider Distribution of Private Propert

37. The social teaching of the Church sees agrarian reform as an instrument capable of extending private ownership of land as long as public authorities follow three distinct but complementary lines of action:

a) in juridical terms, in order to ensure the adoption of laws to uphold and protect the effective distribution of private property;(³⁷)

b) in terms of economic policies, in order to facilitate "an increased distribution of private ownership and of durable consumer goods, of homes, of farms, of one's own equipment in artisan enterprises and farms of family size, of shares in middle-size and large firms";(³⁸)

c) in terms of tax policies, in order to ensure continuity of ownership of material goods within the context of the family.(³⁹)