Cincinnati looks to cap property taxes for low-income senior citizens

Robert Atkinson has been living in the West End for nearly his entire life. The neighborhood has changed a lot over those years. "When we started working on this house, I used to go to work and come home and work in the yard or whatever. Then I'd wake up the next morning and beer bottles were thrown all over the place or bricks or whatever," he said. "So that was disheartening." But he persisted. He grew a garden, he said, because he wanted to show his neighbors that the believed in the West End’s potential. But if property values rise like they have in Over-the-Rhine, Atkinson worries he'll be priced out. He owns his home, but the property taxes could force him to sell. Cincinnati City Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld doesn't want that to happen.