Two approaches to assessing property in 2024 (Jersey City & Monmouth County focus)
March 21, 2024
Consumers in 2024 are accustomed to modern technology automation (e.g., Netflix streaming, Chat GPT4, etc) but locals governments are slow ...
Jersey City Tax Abatements, Visualized from the 2023 User Friendly Budget (CivicParent work paper)
February 23, 2024
This work paper is a visual of Jersey City’s 2023 long-term tax abatements available from the 2023 “User Friendly Budget” ...
NJ Property Tax Dataset, Visualized for 1998 through 2022 (CivicParent work paper)
February 23, 2024
This workpaper is a visual of the “Property Tax Tables” available from the NJ Department of Community Affairs (DCA) website ...
Jersey City set to lose $51 million in NJ education aid; how this connects to rising school tax
March 2, 2023
NJ's Department of Education released its state education aid summaries for the 2023/24 academic year and Jersey City is set ...
Putting Jersey City’s low school tax rate into perspective
March 13, 2022
Jersey City lost another $68 million in state aid on March 10th, 2022. This cut was expected, part of the ...
In one chart: Jersey City’s seismic change in tax levies fully funds the schools and reallocates property tax
June 30, 2021
A "levy" is the amount raised in property tax to fund a government budget. Typically, a levy is one of ...
Open Letter/Comments to Mayor Fulop & City Council: What is being done to pressure-test the need for another citywide revaluation?
October 7, 2020
Sharing an open letter and thoughts that I read into the record at the City Council meeting on Oct 7, ...
Jersey City: Approximately $40 Million of School Tax is Locked Up in Abatement Contracts
May 7, 2019
This is part of a series about the 2019/20 proposed municipal and schools budgets in Jersey City. Jersey City’s proposed ...