Property tax systems carry systematic antiblack bias

Evidence

BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 65 State and local reparations efforts could also include addressing the antiblack bias in our property tax system as skillfully documented in Andrew W. Kahrl, The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024). — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 1165

Categorization

• XREF: Extends the saturated-system harm argument to local property tax administration — a concrete remedy lever at the state and local level.