Washington Post, July 2, 2020: Analysis | Black families pay significantly higher property taxes than White families, new analysis shows
State by state, neighborhood by neighborhood, Black families pay 13% 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.
