Pioneer Press: St. Paul — Housing programs commit to better serving marginalized homebuyers

When Shereese Turner started working as chief program officer at Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity, Turner and the team began an internal investigation to understand who their resources were really serving. Their investigation found that American descendants of chattel slavery — also called foundational Black Americans — had some of the least success in the homebuyers program despite being the second-largest pool of applicants, she said.

Disturbed by this data, Habitat got to work with Research in Action, a nonprofit research education organization. CEO Brittany Lewis’ first suggestion for Habitat was to “build a new table.” Read more.