Sometimes, politicians steal people’s homes.
Really.
If homeowners miss property tax payments, even if they never received the bills, some towns grab the whole house and keep the proceeds. All the proceeds. Even if the total is much more than the property tax owed.
I reported on this (mal)practice a couple years ago. Since then, there’s been good news from the Supreme Court.
But as my new video points out, some towns still steal homes.
Tawanda Hall was behind on her property taxes. For that, she lost her family’s $308,000 house—$286,000 more than what she owed.
When Hall first learned that Oakland County, Michigan, bureaucrats were seizing her home, she went to the mayor’s office to try to pay off her debt.
But “they didn’t want our money,” Hall tells me, “They wanted the house. … They stole our home.”
She didn’t even know she…
