Hochul promotes ‘affordability’ but refuses to adjust NYC’s misaligned property taxes.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul delivers her State of the State address at the Hart Theater. Hans Pennink

It’s January, and New York City homeowners know what that means: Time to warily watch the mailbox to see just how far our property-tax bills will rise this year.

On Tuesday, Gov. Hochul dashed our hopes — yet again — that Albany will step up to make our out-of-whack taxes fairer.

Another State of the State speech has come and gone, and once again property tax reform was left off the proverbial to-do list.

Since 2018, the Property Tax Reform Commission that we helped create has fought for specific ways the state Legislature can make our system fairer, simpler and more transparent — to no avail.

There’s nothing like basic, obvious, in-your-face unfairness to bring two people like us, the City Council’s Democrat Finance Chair and its Republican Minority Leader, together.

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