BISMARCK, North Dakota (PNN) - May 7, 2021 - There is cause for celebration in North Dakota, as it joins the growing list of states that forbid home equity theft.
Until recently, local North Dakota officials could seize and sell valuable properties when the owners fell behind on property tax payments and then keep all the profits as a windfall. The owners? They got nothing.
Until April, the repugnant practice was legal in North Dakota. But thanks to the leadership of courageous state legislators and a forward-looking governor, a new law took effect April 23 that bars local officials from employing this abusive form of governmental theft.









