HOMEOWNERSHIP AND HEALTHY LIVING GAPS ONCE IDENTIFIED BY ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE PROVEN THROUGH FINE-GRADE DATA
The unfair disparity blows up off the page when Joseph Minicozzi, AICP is the principal of Urban3, found the tiny’s dwelling’s assessed value jumped $266% from 2017-2021, but the roomy one in the luxury community went up only 126% in the same time period.
Making things even more unequal, the pricy house
enjoyed a much lower assessment hike despite major renovations, while the
tax-burdened one had zero upgrades.
“There is no way you could look at the data and see that this is reasonable, fair or equitable,” Minicozzi said.
“The thing about (practicing) class bias and race bias is when that’s all you do, you don’t know you are wrong.
“Tax assessors are not bad people, but they are operating off old
standards and habits, they are reticent to change and they under value the
wealthy (residences) because they are terrified of wealthy people.”
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