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Posts tagged property tax
Homelessness and Property Tax Freedom: An Empirical Note

By Richard J. Cebula, Department of Economics and Center for the Study of Public

Choice, George Mason University

Persistent homelessness is present across a variety of nations. These include such politically and economically diverse nations as the UK (Bramley and Fitzpatrick, 2018), US (Early, 2005; Fargo et al, 2013; Corinth and Lucas, 2018; Glynn and Fox, 2019), Spain (Cabrera and Garcia- Perez, 2020), and Australia (Cobb and Zhu, 2017). Not surprisingly, in response, there has appeared an impressive body of research literature seeking to identify factors that systemat- ically influence this phenomenon. Such studies, especially for the US, focus on a variety of explanatory variables. Among these variables, educational attainment, income, warmer cli- mate, the cost of housing/rent levels (Grimes and Chressanthis, 1997; Quigley et al, 2001) and the overall cost of living (Cebula and Alexande

Academia Letters, July 2021, 7p.

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