(08-16-2022, 08:10 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(08-16-2022, 07:53 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote: I used to work at Habitat for Humanity in Jacksonville. I wondered for some time why houses were being built in the very neighborhoods the homebuyers, nine out of ten being black, were already living in. Why would they want to live in the areas they were trying to get out of?

#1 reason was they couldn't afford to buy even a Habitat home in other parts of Jacksonville. An interest free mortgage loan is great but it doesn't cover the yearly cost of property tax and other such costs. Homebuyers are educated on every aspect of buying and owning a house so these extra costs are considered in the qualification process.

Sometimes stuff has exactly nothing to do with racism. Go figure.

Jacksonville and Miami both have black neighborhoods that are so large, so poor, and with so few other-race people living in them, that there is no easy solution in the short term.  These neighborhoods are obviously relics of massive amounts of past racism, so, Habijax's decisions certainly have something to do with racism, even though Habijax themselves are innocent.

I volunteered for Habijax most saturdays in 2001 and 2002.  We may have seen each other there.

Habijax's decisions are based on racism? Lol. They do the best they can with what they're given in terms of lots to build on but as I said, people in those houses couldn't afford the property tax in other parts of Duval county. Is that racist? 

Also, what NJC says. 

I was living in Germany when you volunteered there so we never crossed paths.

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