&gt;<i>#1 they can sell their homes at huge profits (otherwise the taxes would not be hurting them).</i><p>I don&#x27;t know... The spirit of this reminds me too much of landlords paying off tenants to move out of their rental units so that they can reprice rent controlled units to market.<p>You often can&#x27;t afford to live In another place in the area even after reaping those profits, in both the ownership and rental situations. Sometimes, all you want to do is keep living in the place you call home.