The Hidden Cost of Rising Home Prices

The Hidden Cost of Rising Home Prices

July 16, 2026 · 6 min

About this episode

The episode discusses the implications of rising home prices in Texas and the challenges faced by the property-tax system.

Texas home prices are still climbing in some of the state’s most expensive communities; can the property‑tax system keep up without shifting costs onto everyone else? The places seeing the biggest dollar jumps tell us something important about who pays for local government.

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