Mapping the impact of AVI

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Mapping the impact of AVI

POSTED: Monday, February 18, 2013, 11:07 AM



If you own a home in Philadelphia, you've probably already looked up your property tax assessment (and maybe those of your neighbors) on the city's new tax-assessment look-up service and AVI calculator, released on Friday. But what does the landscape look like for the city as a whole? Where are the winners and losers under the Actual Value Initiative? AxisPhilly's mapping gurus have released a map that shows just where the changes will have the most impact. Seeing the massive numbers of homes in, for example, poor neighborhoods of North Philly that are facing 400-percent-plus tax increases is one way to understand what's at stake here. 

Fair warning: Don't click through unless you have time to get sucked in by the strangeness that is Philly property values. 


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