[mikevp]

But before Prop 13, people on fixed incomes were getting taxed out of their paid-off homes they'd lived in for decades.

[redis_mlc]

Downsizing as you get older is a normal thing in the other 49 states.

Also, Prop 13 inexplicably applies to commercial real estate, and inherited property.

[Gibbon1]

Nothing inexplicable about the application to commercial real estate. The major backers of the law were corporate interests.

Also the inherited property bit was a separate amendment. And there is no limit either.

[ng12]

Which is in itself a symptom of the housing crisis. Instead of fixing the root problem they accelerated it.