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This report, developed in collaboration with the Reinvestment Fund, the Center for Economic Policy Analysis (CEPA), and Community Legal Services (CLS), critically evaluates Philadelphia’s 2023 residential property tax assessments. It highlights issues of accuracy, fairness, and systemic racial and...

This report, developed by the Center for Economic Policy Analysis, examines the fairness and accuracy of property tax assessments in Worcester. It highlights how assessment inconsistencies disproportionately impact lower-value properties, often leading to over-taxation for less affluent homeowners w...

“They Would Smile” This document breaks down mental barriers between people, especially those without and with disabilities, and promotes inclusive thinking.  Art, poetry, fiction, and analytic essays provide multiple windows into inclusive life, so that we may be able to find the road to o...

Respectful engagement in political discourse is central to a healthy democracy. Click link below to read more about how we can push the envelope forward. http://cepaunderstands.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Toward-Respectful-Engagement-22-05-27.pdf...

A problem can be solved only if its causes are correctly understood.  Some community-based organizations struggle to find affordable housing, or any housing at all, for low-income residents, while in other communities residents struggle to resist a flood of investment threatening to displace th...

Decades of research have taught us that when government reform and policy goals are not achieved, the problem is often a mismatch between ends and means. We have come to understand and appreciate the 1941 words of Albert Einstein,1still true today:      “What hopes and fears do...

Summary AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PROPERTY TAX...

Summary.  Each individual’s property tax bill depends directly on everyone else’s assessment.  For this reason, all property owners have an interest in a fair assessment system. When property tax bills change, especially by large amounts, the change is almost always caused more by chan...