Orange County residents discuss property tax inequities during meeting in Hillsborough. (Photo: Greg Childress)
Orange County residents attending a meeting Monday night about property tax disparities nodded knowingly at Hudson Vaughan’s words.
“Across the country, Black-owned property is under appraised when folks are trying to get bank loans or equity out of their homes but is actually overassessed for property taxes,” said Vaughn, director of the Community Justice Collaborative at the N.C. Housing Coalition.
The audience of mostly elderly, Black residents had heard Vaughan use the words before. Many of them have experienced what he described…