“——— making it impossible for elderly black residents to stay in their homes with the quickly rising property taxes. “
So what?
Most elderly get rid of their homes and downsize.
I do not have one friend who still lives in the home in which they raised their families———and we’re white.
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Choosing to leave and being forced out are very different... I’m just saying both sides play racial politics for ‘fun and profit’... I don’t care for it on either side. Something unpleasant about it.
Blacks have the tax ‘advantage’ of living in undesirable neighborhoods by virtue of the fact they live there... It’s why blacks in Harlem didn’t want Clinton putting his office there - it would start the gentrification process that leads to higher taxes. The networks of incentives around race make it difficult to find solutions. Housing is only one of them...