One of the programs that has been supporting condo sales is that of urban tax abatements that allow home owners in certain areas to pay reduced or no—property taxes to give buyers an incentive to live in areas that have been previously seen as undesirable. Many of these tax breaks were set up for finite amounts of time, running anywhere from five to fifteen or twenty-five years; and some of these tax abatements are now coming to an end at a particularly bad time.