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KUOW - Black Americans And The Racist Architecture Of Homeownership


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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