Current tax policy perpetuates historical housing discrimination
Evidence
It’s widely acknowledged today that past policies like those covenants left black American families behind when it comes to homeownership and its role in generational wealth building. Less known is the fact that present-day tax policy helps keep them there. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 1232
Categorization
- XREF: The diagnosis-to-remedy bridge from The Whiteness of Wealth: what looked like a closed chapter (legally banned discrimination) is kept alive by present law — the saturated-system claim.