NOTE: Sections of this Web site, esp. as to schools, are out of date.  See the Blog for the latest data.

We pay high taxes in Richmond.  We get excessive crime and lousy schools and a housing agency that harbors crime and doesn't know where its money is. 

• Among 135 Virginia cities and counties, Richmond ranks nineteenth from the worst in terms of how hard they tax their citizens.
   

• Despite recent improvements, Richmond has the seventh worst crime rate in Virginia among the jurisdictions with populations >10,000.
   

• The Richmond schools cost $2,889 per pupil more than average but deliver the lowest SOL scores in the state.
   

• The largest landlord in the City is, to put it kindly, dysfunctional.  Partly because of that, RRHA property is a hotbed of crime.

We can get poor schools and unsafe streets at a much lower cost.  So why are we paying so much money to get such awful results?

New: Some recent data are on the blog.