Seems like the bigger crime to is to shift the tax burden from the richest people to new homeowners struggling to make ends meet.
When I was young I realized that most people sold their souls to make a living. They were not in the top 2% of IQ with the capacity to innovate and determine the nature of society and that most of that 2% would use their gifts to benefit mainly themselves as that is the motivator in a capitalist society. At the time it was a thing to turn on tune in and drop out. So I did. I took a menial service job in order to eat. I made nothing but rents and food were cheap. I found a spiritual teacher by accident that actually knew things. I had already beaten the crushing weight of existential suffering. I had found my way out of the trap that sacred cows are what give life meaning. Then the rents started to rise and in order to survive at the job I had I would be forced to move farther and farther away wasting even greater portions of a short life in a car on a polluted highway. So I bought a house with a crushing mortgage and lived in basic poverty. But what makes life a struggle is resistance.
So, once I was young and hoped that buying a home would help me to be secure against the rising tide of the cost of having a place to live. Soon people at my income level could not afford to buy in my neighborhood. And taxes kept going up 2% a year, taxes I would often have to put on a credit card to pay owing to having so little to live on after my mortgage payment. And so it has been all my life here in my home.
But one thing seems for sure. I will never be lonely. I get a letter or a phone call almost everyday from some real estate investor who has a fantastic deal for me. I can sell as is and they will take care of everything not even any real estate commissions involved. Lucky me. Around here those hew homeowners struggling to make ends meet will be making more in a month than I could have saved in 30 years.
I love you for your compassion for those who struggle. I would like to help them too but I have no doubt whatsoever that those who succeed will in not too much time become our future NIMBYs as it requires multiple millions a year in income to afford to buy here and the taxes become astronomical as well.