05-10-2019, 10:09 AM
(05-10-2019, 07:42 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: Why do you think expropriation doesn't work? That's my impression of exactly what happened last time. The city took and sold the property to pay for the taxes.
No, they didn’t expropriate it. They seized it and then went through a tax sale process, which has many rules, apparently including that they can’t sell it for less than the outstanding taxes, even if the property is not worth that much.
Expropriation means the property ownership is transferred to the City, which then pays fair-market compensation to the former owner (and note that events, as I understand it, do occur in that order: a plan of expropriation is registered in the land titles system, which transfers the ownership, and then they can fight about what the compensation amount should be).