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Re:The Bay Area’s tech boom in historical and social context by twblalock on Friday July 06, 2018 @10:03PM (#17476458)
Homeowners are market participants. They benefit from increased home equity caused by increased market prices. They get to capture that equity when they eventually sell their homes, and in the meantime they get to borrow against it. And the homeowners who rent out their properties get to charge more.
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Re:The Bay Area’s tech boom in historical and social context by sulam on Saturday July 07, 2018 @03:51AM (#17477591)
Listen, no offense, but you're not going to convince me that it's cool to price people out of the homes they live in simply because they've been in them for 10 years and the market has moved that much. There's an older minority couple that live across the street from us who have been in the neighborhood for over 30 years now. Community like that is part of why we bought here. If my wife and I moving in means suddenly everyone has higher property taxes, I'd have a serious problem with that.
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Re:The Bay Area’s tech boom in historical and social context by andromeduck on Saturday July 07, 2018 @06:33AM (#17477941)
Well the solution for that would be to allow the taxes to be deferred in part or in whole in the form of a lien.
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