Date: August 20th, 2009

Subsidy or surcharge? Part 2, should we?

20 August, 2009 (11:14) | Local issues, Massachusetts, Real estate taxes, Tenure, Theory, Zoning | No comments

[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1].
 
Yesterday’s post examined the hypothetical of raising property taxes while exempting a particular class of elderly homeowners from the increased costs they would vote to impose.  As shown in a fascinating quantitative analysis, Massachusetts Proposition 2½, Simulating Overrides with Low-Income Elderly Exemptions, published in the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston article in [...]