Black homeownership’s stall during COVID-19 pandemic the ‘epidemic after the epidemic’
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on August 17, 2021
Eboni Taylor searches online for a home every day.
Taylor, 35, and her husband Andarius have been trying to buy a house in Detroit for a year. But student loan debt, the costs of living and competition with buyers who can pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash have kept their dream out of reach.
“How many times I’ve gotten my hopes up,’’ says Taylor, who’s the Michigan executive director for the advocacy group Mothering Justice.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, mortgage . . .
