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Accounting

Here’s the Real Reason Houston Is Going Broke

Charles Marohn
Accounting

Christmas Cookie Inflation Index, 2023 Update

Charles Marohn
Housing

Rent Control Is an Anti-Displacement Policy, Not an Affordability Policy

Daniel Herriges
Accounting

Baltimore’s Property Tax System Robs the Poor to Pay for the Wealthy

Seairra Jones
Accounting

97% of Detroit Taxpayers Could Get a Reduction in Property Taxes

Seairra Jones
Accounting

Stop Subsidizing Suburban Development, Charge It What It Costs

Dustin Shane
Accounting

5 Action Steps You Can Take To Start Changing the Property Tax System in Your Town

Seairra Jones
Accounting

For 100 Years, Low-Income Americans Overpay on Property Taxes, While the Richest Underpay

Seairra Jones
Accounting

Taxed “Beyond Sanity”—And Not Getting the Services Promised

Seairra Jones
Accounting

Redlining Maps Were Burned—But the Fundamentals Are Still Taught

Seairra Jones
Accounting

Can a Stadium Save Philadelphia’s “Dead Zone”?

Asia Mieleszko
Accounting

What Algorithms Get Wrong About Taxes (and What Humans Fail To Fix)

Seairra Jones
Accounting

Detroit Considers Changing its Property Tax System to No Longer Punish Investments

Seairra Jones
Accounting

Progress Isn't Inevitable

Kevin Klinkenberg
Highways

Highway Ramps Promised To Deliver Chester From Hardship. Residents Are Still Waiting.

Asia Mieleszko
Accounting

Buncombe County Has the Conversation No One Wants to Have: Property Taxes

Seairra Jones
Accounting

Christmas Cookie Inflation Index, 2022 Update

Charles Marohn
Accounting

Northside Neighborhood in NC Reduced Property Tax Values by $7 Million

Seairra Jones
Accounting

Check Your Temperature—You Might Have an Assessment Fever

Seairra Jones
Accounting

The Pillaging of Detroit

Seairra Jones
Accounting

Main Street vs. Big Box Stores: A Western North Carolina Analysis

Seairra Jones
Housing

Letting Ugly Things Grow

Daniel Herriges
Accounting

Can America’s Unfair Property Tax System Ever Be Fixed?

Seairra Jones
Accounting

"Should I Protest My Property Taxes?"

Seairra Jones

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