Mayor Bill de Blasio has been getting flak from critics regarding the low property taxes he pays on his two Park Slope properties and the lack of “Fair Share” distribution of homeless shelters in his upscale neighborhood.
Tax Equity Now NY, a group of tax-reform advocates, has filed a class-action lawsuit against the city, charging that the “property tax system is racially biased and favors the affluent over the working- and middle-class.”