The City of Pittsburgh's financial watchdog is calling on state lawmakers to act on property reassessment.
Pennsylvania is widely cited as the only state without recurring reassessments.
That leaves the task to individual counties, which produces infrequent and inconsistent reassessments and huge disparities between old assessments and current market values.
Pittsburgh City Controller Rachel Heisler says that needs to change.
“It would be really helpful if the state could just take this off the plate and handle it and it was done on a recurring basis statewide because every other state does it,” said Heisler.
Heisler says statewide reassessments should be mandatory every five or ten years.
“The idea that this hasn’t happened in 12 or now, 14 years, it’s ridiculous,” said Heisler.