Residents of a Milwaukee enclave fear
being taxed out their homes as the
museum's plans push downtown development
northward
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
by
Talis Shelbourne
Original Article
Posted By: MDConservative,
12/2/2020 10:36:52 AM
Lennie Mosley, president of the Halyard Park Neighborhood Association, first moved to the area with her husband in 1980.
Back then, she said, few people wanted to live there. Now, the neighborhood's location within walking distance of the Fiserv Forum and related projects has put its housing in high demand and led to a sharp rise in property taxes.
In recent decades, the adjacent Brewers Hill neighborhood experienced gentrification, with longtime residents pushed out as property values skyrocketed due to demand from wealthier buyers who moved in, resulting in higher tax bills for all.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Avanti1 12/2/2020 11:04:01 AM (No. 621488)
Identity politics is all that the left knows.
I see a lot of complaining and blame in this article but no viable solutions. Property values reflect free market values and desirability. The way to keep property values (and taxes) low is to allow neighborhoods to decay and decline in desirability; is that beneficial to cities as a whole?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
vhs68 12/2/2020 11:09:50 AM (No. 621494)
Bring in the BLM. Some burning, looting and busted windows will do wonders for them.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 12/2/2020 11:12:44 AM (No. 621499)
Proposition 13 passed in California because people were getting taxed out of their homes that they'd lived in for decades. I have no problems with gentrification, but it should be "willing buyer, willing seller," not "willing buyer, seller forced to sell because they can't afford the property taxes." There is a problem when people have owned their homes for decades and are forced to sell because their property assessment has increased exponentially.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
HPmatt 12/2/2020 11:22:23 AM (No. 621508)
Have a mail-in referendum to decide it Milwakeans. Enjoy the democratic-Wisconsin screw job.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
lazlototh 12/2/2020 11:36:16 AM (No. 621518)
When the value of your middle-class home increases so much that your property taxes increase too much the solution is to sell your home at a profit and move to where it's cheaper. I know that's easy to say and a pain to do but it's how things work. When you sell your appreciated home you will have money to use to do other things - including sitting there in an account that represents security against contingencies. This happens all the time.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bad-hair 12/2/2020 11:41:23 AM (No. 621524)
Anything over 2 bucks a sq. foot is silly. Move to New York.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Quigley 12/2/2020 11:45:48 AM (No. 621531)
The Take What We Want Party detests anachronistic laws and people who cling to them.
Go back to sleep. It will be easier if you just wake up to find it’s gone. Maybe you misremembered ever having it. Just know that you’re wonderful. The Self Esteem Galore constituency.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
IowaDad 12/2/2020 11:50:01 AM (No. 621535)
The wealthier they get, the more they complain? Prey tell, who should I care?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 12/2/2020 1:28:25 PM (No. 621622)
This is a common problem. Since cities have an insatiable appetite for more money, there is no long-term solution.
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I hate the cold open. I triple hate the cold open. It's the worst sort of cliche and right there with 'It was a dark and stormy night.'
'Gentrification' is a fifty-cent word for 'we let our property become so blighted and run-down that it became worth more dead (metaphorically) than alive.' So many racial grievance myths have become articles of faith eg redlining (ie rational risk assessment) and gerrymandering.
In modest neighborhoods where homes and property are well-kept I don't see developers swooping in to knock down houses. SOMEONE has to pay the property taxes so cities are loath to run off hipster neighborhoods closer in to town. Meanwhile, it seems that in places where there are 'neighborhood associations' there are few neighbors and even less association as the 'hood becomes, well, the 'hood with single moms, feral kids and lots of transients.
Instead of waiting for government intervention, one can always pick up a paint brush.
We are not a European nation therefore the class system does not apply here, but can we at least agree that the primary requirement to be working class is to...work? If these people are welfare class (and they probably are) they should bloody well say so.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
AltaD 12/2/2020 7:01:35 PM (No. 621858)
Would she prefer to see her neighborhood go from respectable working class to ghetto? Seriously, who doesn't want their neighborhood to improve?
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Milwaukee, supposedly the "most segregated city in America", has those who are segregated now demanding segregation...because their property values increase with "gentrification." Property taxes go up, too...from all the services demanded of the city. And who is supposed to be sympathetic? Many working class folks were forced out of the city years ago by the same property tax issue, not to mention the increasingly crummy schools, rise in crime, and deteriorating infrastructure. The remaining white population is skewing old, with the younger set minority. Milwaukee is now firmly a minority-majority city, and has been since 2006. Oh, the humanity!