Slow housing market doesn’t have to hurt government revenues

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How much home sales impact a city’s government depends largely on its property tax policies, Governing reports. Places least vulnerable to a slow housing market have strong caps on property tax rates and have assessed property values that lag far behind market values. That’s good news for the city-parish government of Baton Rouge, which not

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