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[[File:Kim-Mai Cutler on Twitter EMP.jpg|thumb|right|400px|it's cookin' on Twittah]][names for this being debated:  Proposition 13 Subsidy Map, Proposition 13 Equity Mapping Project..?]
[[File:Kim-Mai Cutler on Twitter EMP.jpg|thumb|right|400px|it's cookin' on Twittah]][names for this being debated:  Proposition 13 Subsidy Map, Proposition 13 Equity Mapping Project..?].

Suggested hashtag: #Prop13mapping<br/> Project Twitter account: [https://twitter.com/Equity_Map @Equity_Map].

== Overview ==


In the Bay Area and California, like other high-growth regions around the world, there have been dramatic rises in property values in recent decades. Additionally, in&nbsp;California, the&nbsp;[[Proposition_13|Proposition 13]] tax-limitation measure of 1978 means that there are sometimes large disparities in the effective tax rate paid by residential property owners vis a vis estimated property market values and a situation in which those owning for longer pay&nbsp;lower property taxes.&nbsp;
In the Bay Area and California, like other high-growth regions around the world, there have been dramatic rises in property values in recent decades. Additionally, in&nbsp;California, the&nbsp;[[Proposition_13|Proposition 13]] tax-limitation measure of 1978 means that there are sometimes large disparities in the effective tax rate paid by residential property owners vis a vis estimated property market values and a situation in which those owning for longer pay&nbsp;lower property taxes.&nbsp;