A wealth-targeted subsidy necessarily includes some white homeowners, making it imperfectly race-aligned.
Evidence
The racial wealth gap means that my proposal will likely apply to the majority of black homeowners who live in racially diverse neighborhoods, as well as to the residents of some all-white neighborhoods in poorer rural areas. From my perspective, that makes the neighborhood-based subsidy a less than ideal solution, but it’s potentially the most politically and legally viable. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 1299
Categorization
Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims
- QUESTION: Brown candidly concedes her legally viable option fails to target only black homeowners — a fairness objection worth tracking.
Related
- Wealth-based targeting also reaches white rural poor, a political plus (similarity 0.92)
- Neighborhood wealth thresholds can legally replicate the racial targeting of subsidies. (similarity 0.86)
- Neighborhoods with over 10 percent black homeowners lose value and deserve targeted tax subsidies. (similarity 0.86)
- Neighborhood wealth thresholds can legally proxy for race in subsidies (similarity 0.86)
- Black homeownership subsidies fail if they ignore present-day white racism. (similarity 0.86)
- Targeting subsidies to majority-black neighborhoods could offset racial devaluation. (similarity 0.84)
- Down payment assistance fails to close the racial homeownership gap without addressing present-day bias (similarity 0.82)
- Wealth-based neighborhood targeting can legally redirect homeownership subsidies (similarity 0.82)
- Present-day race-neutral tax subsidies deepen the racial wealth gap inherited from past discrimination. (similarity 0.80)
- Race-based tax remedies fail constitutional review without proven discriminatory intent (similarity 0.79)
- Black homeownership is systematically less profitable than white homeownership because of neighborhood effects. (similarity 0.79)
- Black taxpayers funded FHA subsidies from which they were excluded (similarity 0.79)
- Current mortgage tax subsidies function as lawful redlining favoring white homeowners (similarity 0.78)