Sacramento Mayor Kevin McCarty Proposes Property Tax Hike to fund Homeless Housing

Sacramento Mayor Kevin McCarty, a Democrat, announced at his first State of the City address Monday, that he is proposing a new tax plan to fund more tiny homes and junkie-homeless housing, after the state of California has already spent and wasted more than $37 billion on homeless drug addicted vagrants who don’t want housing or treatment.

Sacramento has provided tiny homes, renovated hotels, RV trailers, most of which sit empty. The government-run homeless fraud needs to end.

California’s Legislative Analyst’s Office reported that the state has spent $37 billion on homelessness since 2019, but there is a lack of data to determine the effectiveness of these expenditures. That means most of the $37 billion is unaccounted for, and there are still hundreds of thousands of junkies living on California streets.

Imagine that. I’m sure Mayor McCarty has seen these numbers. But apparently, more is never enough when Democrats can just tap into private property owners, whereby property owners effectively pay rent to the government in order to keep their homes.

McCarty is proposing a real estate tax increase on the sale of “only high-priced homes” – “homes valued at more than $1 million to help fund more housing projects like tiny home communities and downpayment assistance for first time homebuyers. McCarty wants the tax increase proposal on the 2026 ballot,” CBS 13 News reported.

Um, No.

Most decent middle class homes – and not just “high priced homes”- have inflated to $1 million+ in California.

“It’s called the property transfer tax and is a fee paid each time a home is sold in Sacramento, with the amount based on a home’s value. For example, a home that sells for $500,000 currently pays $1,375.”

“Last year, the tax raised more than $12 million although the annual amount is volatile due to market fluctuations.”

Contrasting the irresponsible tax-and-spend Democrats is Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who is proposing to eliminate property taxes for homeowners. DeSantis says this change would relieve financial pressure on homeowners and promote traditional homeownership in the state.

What a concept – eliminate property taxes and increase home ownership.

“Property taxes effectively require homeowners to pay rent to the government. Florida residents need relief,” DeSantis said in March.

Mayor McCarty says, “We still see too many unsheltered people on our streets in our community and we need to do things differently.”

That is where the Mayor and I agree. Start with incarceration of the “unsheltered, unhoused” street-junkies.

Building more tiny homes only benefits the builders and developers. And while I support more building and development, it needs to be done for future home buyers, and not for the population living in their own filth on the streets – by choice. Most don’t want help.

I would venture that the state has failed miserably to manage the homeless crisis, but it is a crisis created by the left and Democrats, and their supposed solutions aren’t solutions at all.

Increasing taxes on the responsible property owners and taxpayers is the least creative “solution” and most punitive – on the people who already pay for everything government spends.

Mayor McCarty is just another of the revolving door, has-been Democrats to “lead” Sacramento. His political and voting record is so atrocious, if he was a private sector worker, he’d have been out of a job years ago.

Sacramento residents may want to consider a recall election should the Mayor an City Council continue this outrageous proposal.

Remember that $37,000,000,000 billion was spent on homeless in California. This is Gavin Newsom’s and Kevin McCarty’s California.