A 30% increase for many homeowners, on top of a previous 20-30% increase = unable to afford the house you live in.
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With rare exceptions, you do not own property in this country. You own indefinite full "interest" in the property but you do not actually own it.
Look up the difference between "fee simple" "fee absolute" and "allodial" titles. Most land in our country today is owned via fee simple or absolute, which is effectively part of the feudal system system of land ownership. Though you may own interest in the land and all that is on it, you're still beholden to regulations and eminent domain (and taxes). Essentially, the state is your superior landlord and, because of that, can take that property from you with "just" cause as long as they pay you "proper" compensation, which is also determinded by the group taking your land.
The ONLY way to own property outright is allodial title, that is the only system where you have proper ownership of the land with complete control. It's effectively a contract between you and God at that point. There are places in the northern Europe that still have land with allodial title but it's becoming more and more rare. There are some pieces of land here with that title but, at the first opportunity, municipalities tried to take it away so it's become pretty rare.
Moral of the story, land ownership in this country is a joke. Land of the free but we cannot own property outright, it's ridiculous.