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How the Baker administration wants to use COVID-19 relief funds to close the racial homeownership gap It s almost reparations. Elise Amendola / AP
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Massachusetts has one of the largest racial homeownership gaps in the country. And in the midst of the ongoing debate with State House leaders over who gets to spend roughly $5 billion in recent direct federal COVID-19 relief funds to the state, Gov. Charlie Baker is pushing to immediately use some of the money to address that gap in the hopes of closing one of the root causes of the racial wealth divide.
He even has some State House leaders on his side.