Originally Posted by The Batlord

Thank you because that's a lot of effort to put in for people who don't care, but don't forget about the history of housing discrimination where blacks were prevented from owning homes in white neighborhoods by unofficial but very real segregation. The prevention of blacks from the kind of wealth afforded by home ownership is important. Not to mention that the ownership opportunities given to them in low income areas had unfair pricing that basically forced them to forgo maintaining their property just to pay their mortgages so that their property values plummeted.