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Black neighborhoods in Kansas hard hit by property tax sales

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Rozetta Dotson worked two jobs to scrape together the money to pay down a delinquent tax debt on the Kansas City, Kansas, home she owns with her husband, Ricky.

Then the pandemic hit, she lost her second job and Ricky got COVID-19. The Black homeowners kept paying what they could toward the taxes while waiting to talk to a judge about a new payment agreement.

Then she found out her house was up for auction online. “We just felt like it was a scam, like they were trying to take our property and my husband said we felt like we were targeted, you know, because we are living in a predominantly Black neighborhood and they were doing everything they could to cause us to lose our house," she said.

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