Yes. The occasional high-profile case aside, if you look at the actual records of people who lose their homes based on unpaid property taxes, you're going to se

Yes. The occasional high-profile case aside, if you look at the actual records of people who lose their homes based on unpaid property taxes, you're going to see a vastly disproportionate number of moderate- to low-income people. Sometimes people with very low incomes (e.g. the 81-year-old woman who lost her home of 40 years due to ~$500 in unpaid taxes). I myself have some first-hand experience in this area. A now-deceased relative owned some (quite modestly valued) property in another state. It came within a hairs-breadth of being sold for $12.00 in back taxes. Yep, twelve bucks. It seems she'd neglected to pay the $4.00/year in taxes while she was busy dying of cancer. Fortunately one of the neighbors took the time to search me out and let me know about this, so I was able to save it. It was a near thing, though.