Black families pay significantly higher property taxes than white families, new analysis shows [washingtonpost.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 7/6/2012:30 PM

By Andrew Van Dam, The Washington Post, July 2, 2020

State by state, neighborhood by neighborhood, black families pay 13 percent more in property taxes each year than a white family would in the same situation, a massive new data analysis shows.

Black-owned homes are consistently assessed at higher values, relative to their actual sale price, than white homes, according to a new working paper by economists Troup Howard of the University of Utah and Carlos Avenancio-León of Indiana University.

African Americans have long said they bear a disproportionate burden for taxes that support local police, schools and parks, but nationwide measures of this type of systemic racism are hard to come by.

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