Chicago Leads the Nation in Homes Underwater Ives has a solution

For Immediate Release   Chicago Leads the Nation in Homes Underwater...Ives has a Life Preserver Ives would cap property taxes at 1% to stop the decline of IL home values March 19, 2018 - A CoreLogic report finds 135,000 Chicagoland homeowners are underwater on their mortgages. The 10% of Chicagoland homeowners underwater is twice the national rate. By contrast, the rate in New York City is 5.4% and 1.8% in LA. Conservative reform gubernatorial candidate State Rep. Jeanne Ives understands that the highest property taxes in the nation are a significant contributor to declining home values and she has a plan to do something about it as outlined in this campaign video: ### For more information or to book Jeanne Ives, contact Kathleen Murphy at 630-329-4680 orkathleenemurphy26@gmail.com.

Rauner’s Property Tax Deal Transcript: Bruce Rauner did nothing to lower property taxes. From Rauner’s view property taxes aren’t a problem. He has a sweetheart tax deal on his $6 million downtown penthouse,while the suburban homeowners he ignored suffer under the highest rates in the nation. Like Jeanne Ives, who pays property taxes at 4 times the rate of Rauner for a home that is worth 1/15th of Rauner’s Like you, Ives has watched her property taxes soar and her home equity disappear. That’s why Ives will cap property taxes at 1 % of home value Rauner has that deal. Ives thinks you should too. Don’t we all deserve Rauner’s deal?