These camps are owned by a religious group. Entire neighborhoods have been built in these camps. MANY people are living there and according to this real estate agent, no one on this property pays property taxes. Because these people don't pay taxes, the surrounding neighbors have to pay more taxes to make up the difference.

The house I'm looking at has over $12k in property tax, and it's only valued at roughly $170k. Neighboring properties pay the same (one was at $10k, the other was at $11k).

Can religious groups really get away with this?

Links: http://www.riverreporter.com/issues/04-08-26/head3-relations.html (thanks to sandflea)

EDIT: I removed any indication of which religious group owns this land to prevent this thread from becoming a bash-fest against a particular religious group.