Despite the city’s claims that Detroit’s property tax assessments are now accurate, advocates argue the system still overtaxes lower-valued homes — disproportionately harming Black homeowners and threatening generational wealth.
The article follows Tahira Ahmad, a lifelong Detroiter who claims she has overpaid more than $30,000 in taxes due to an overassessment. Her story reflects a larger crisis: between 2011–2015, over 100,000 Detroit homes were foreclosed due to unpaid property taxes — an issue a researcher calls “legal violence.”…