Black Americans And The Racist Architecture Of Homeownership – Nation & World News
Black Americans And The Racist Architecture Of Homeownership By Jonaki Mehta May 8, 2021 , on American democracy. Last summer, DonnaLee Norrington had a dream about owning a home. Not the figurative kind, but a literal dream, as she slept in the rental studio apartment in South Los Angeles that she was sharing with a friend. At around 2 a.m., Norrington remembers, “God said to me, ‘Why don’t you get a mortgage that doesn’t move?’ And in my head I knew that meant a fixed mortgage.” The very next morning — she made an appointment with Mark Alston, a local mortgage broker well ...
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