There needs to be an overhaul, nationwide on property taxes. They need to tax property for property-related services only( i.e. streets, sewers, cops and fire protection and possibly utilities) removing government costs and schools and these should be parcel taxes based on the actual costs of the services being delivered, and not the value of the property being taxed. Prop 13 here in CA was a meat axe initiative that isn't in any way fair, but it has prevented the State from driving people, particularly those who have retired, from their homes. I know from looking at my annual tax bills, schools are 80% of the total being demanded. The other thing that needs to be done is to do away with police and fire unions, they are stealing us blind.
Don’t know if you ere actually a property owner in 1978 when Prop 13 got voted in, but the 58 counties in California all had different methods of taxing homes.
Prop 13 not only put everyone on the same footing, it allowed elderly home owners making a pittance on social security to keep their homes. Otherwise, they were literally being taxed out of their homes.
Breaking up Prop 13 won’t help those currently considered retired or elderly who still live in Calif in their homes they have owned for a long time. 80% of your tax bill goes for schools?
How many of the elderly have kids still in the school systems. ?? Some states actually don’t charge the school portion of the property tax bills to home owners over 65.