Black families pay significantly higher property taxes than white families, new analysis shows

Unfair property assessments lead to widespread over-taxation of black Americans’ homes A national reckoning with racism, combined with the economic damage wrought by the pandemic, is prompting some state and local officials to take a closer look at an issue that has long bedeviled Black homeowners: inflated property tax assessments. For decades, white tax assessorsContinue reading “Black families pay significantly higher property taxes than white families, new analysis shows”