Using wealth as a benefits metric rarely triggers constitutional review

Evidence

As part of a neighborhood-based subsidy policy, we could also tie in deductions for home-sale losses in these neighborhoods. Wealth, as we will see in chapter 6, is a typical metric for limiting access to government benefits, so this fix would be unlikely to face serious constitutional challenges. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 1298

Categorization

• XREF: Wealth as an allowed eligibility metric recurs in chapter 6; worth tracking how consistently Brown relies on it.