AFAIK you cannot be sent to prison for not paying property taxes in the USA.
AFAIK you cannot be sent to prison for not paying property taxes in the USA.
However, you can lose your property if you don't pay property taxes. (If you're late, the interest can be significant AND it gets treated like property tax for the purpose of "lose your property".)
Moreover, the "lose your property" process pretty much guarantees that you'll lose much of the equity that you had in said property.
I mean, being poor sucks, and it does make you more likely to commit crime, but talking about it like it's an inevitability is inaccurate and not in good faith.
If someone is charged with tax evasion they are charged with something other than merely owning property and not paying taxes. They are charged with some specific criminal act.
Taxation OTOH is a civil, not a criminal, matter. If someone doesn't pay their property tax then, in the worst case, control/ownership of the property is taken by the relevant authorities, the property sold and the taxes paid to the extent possible.