Tag: Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr
Funding Freetown – bridging the gap between civic pride and property tax
If you want to know how cities survive without a functioning property-based tax system, you just have to look at Freetown. Freetown with its overflowing gutters, annual flooding tragedies, environmental degradation, and mountains of hazardous waste is the perfect example of a city that cannot pay for itself.