Issue Position: Seniors

Issue Position

One of the issues Michael discovered as a community advocate was that the Afton area has a lot of senior residents. Seniors whose property tax is chasing them from their own homes. Michael knows we have to provide property tax relief for our senior neighbors on fixed incomes. In Jefferson City, his highest priority will be keeping our senior neighbors in their homes.

There are policies that have been implemented in other states to help senior citizens on a fixed income afford large property tax increases and keeping them in their homes. The state of Oregon pioneered a policy that allows seniors to defer increases in property taxes keeping them in their homes. We can do this in Missouri. It just takes leadership.

Michael proimises to make bringing a program like this to the agenda in Jefferson City.

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