Hasnain says:

This was so infuriating because there was so much more the author could have done to make things right - at the very least, offer to share or give up all the proceeds she made from when she was given this other woman’s house.

“This isn’t a story about gentrification – at least, not how we usually think about it. It’s a story of a Black woman losing her home to municipal greed, and a white woman benefitting from her loss. It’s a story about the racial wealth gap, and how the median white American household accrues almost eight times the wealth of most Black American households.

But it’s also a story about what we do next: how we calculate damage, and what we might do to repair it.”

Posted on 2022-10-21T14:38:05+0000