[asdfgasd]

>The contract breech: Property taxes going up so fast that the only possible solution was to sell your home. Now, of course the value of the home was going up, which was what was driving the taxes. But forcing pensioners to sell their homes, disrupting/destroying a life-time of plans and work was never going to be a smooth ride -- who could have thought that it would be?

Financial instruments that prevent that already exist. If your home is worth millions of dollars it's not that hard to find a way to pay the property tax. "Having more money" is rarely a real problem.

> a sufficient number of desperate people saw it as a solution to get it enacted.

No, people who's material interests are in direct conflict with a functional society pushed for it. It passed through a combination of "think of the elders" concern-trolling and libertarian dark money.

[wmf]

Specifically, you could use a reverse mortgage to pay property tax. A similar solution that has been proposed is that unpaid property taxes could accumulate as a lien and thus be paid when the house is sold.

[selimthegrim]

I thought this was standard-it happened to many properties after Katrina

[zepto]

Your solution is to make real estate into just a rental from the state.

That’s not a great one either.