Vertical Equity App

This database provides detailed information about the property tax system in all 50 states, with descriptions of states’ property tax relief programs, tax limits, taxation of agricultural property, classification, tax rates, and much more.

This StoryMap introduces viewers to the key water sustainability issues in the Colorado River Basin through data and stories. Although not the largest or longest river in the world, the Colorado River connects a rich array of social and ecological communities along its 1,450 mile journey from its headwaters in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado to its mouth in the Gulf of California, Mexico.

On a national level, findings of widespread vertical inequity in property tax assessments—with low-priced properties assessed at a higher percentage of market value than high-priced properties—have challenged assessment offices across the US to measure and evaluate the vertical equity in assessment rolls.