Downtown focal point is now surrounded by a construction fence as improvements begin. Columnist David Allen finds out what's planned and how the statue came to be.
Downtown focal point is now surrounded by a construction fence as improvements begin. Columnist David Allen finds out what's planned and how the statue came to be.
Downtown focal point is now surrounded by a construction fence as improvements begin. Columnist David Allen finds out what's planned and how the statue came to be.
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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. / Nevil Jackson for NPR
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DonnaLee Norrington in her bedroom in Compton, Calif. Last summer, as she slept in a rental studio apartment in South Los Angeles, she had a dream about owning a home for the first time. Norrington was 59 at the time.
Black Americans And The Racist Architecture Of Homeownership
This story is part of an NPR series, We Hold These Truths, 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 â she made an appointment with Mark Alston, a local mortgage broker well known in South LA Black community, to inquire about purchasing her very own home for the first time.