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Yes it still is, but there was a measure that passed to provide some route for retirees to transfer low property taxes to a smaller place. In practice that probably helps to even make the smaller places inaccessible to young families, while the big houses get bought as investments by big firms… and often left to sit vacant. Lots of large vacant houses with mysterious ownership in my neighborhood, some dilapidated, and others kept up by commercial crews.