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Black Americans And The Racist Architecture Of Homeownership


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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. ....

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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 — 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. ....

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Black Americans And The Racist Architecture Of Homeownership


, 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.
/ Nevil Jackson for NPR
/
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. ....

United States , Rancho Cucamonga , Beverly Hills , Los Angeles County , Santa Monica , Los Angeles , Riverside County , Wilson Park , Sugar Hill , Marvin Gaye , Thurmond Clarke , Eric Avila , Ethel Waters , Robert Bartlett , Rose Mayes , Kitty Felde , Yolanda Segura , Compton Nevil Jackson , Douglas Dollarhide , Robert Lee Johnson , Van Nickerson , Freddie Mac , Aamina Hassan , Nevil Jackson , Ted Golding , Robert Johnson ,

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 known in South LA Black community, to inquire about purchasing her very own home for the first time. ....

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