Black homeownership required exceptional help because normal channels were closed
Evidence
My parents were put in a position to build wealth through homeownership because of exceptional circumstances. Most black Americans at the time could not tell the same story. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 1227
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Exceptional helpers, not government programs, enabled black homeownership; Successful black homeownership stems from exceptional luck and help, not a fair system. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 1303; Black homebuyers needed luck and personal connections to buy homes before 1968. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 1223 (+3 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Exceptional helpers, not government programs, enabled black homeownership; Successful black homeownership stems from exceptional luck and help, not a fair system. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 1303; Black homebuyers needed luck and personal connections to buy homes before 1968. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 1223 (+3 more)