INEQUITY REVEALED

HOMEOWNERSHIP AND HEALTHY LIVING GAPS ONCE IDENTIFIED BY ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE PROVEN THROUGH FINE-GRADE DATA

Joseph Minicozzi, AICP is the principal of Urban3, compared a 720 square foot house in the predominantly black Shiloh neighborhood, to the spacious home of an infamous attorney in Biltmore Forrest, a virtually all-white, affluent, golf course community developed around the Biltmore Estate by the Vanderbilt family just across the street from Shiloh. 

The modest home is valued at $125 per square foot while the estate home is valued at $107 per square foot. 

And the county’s tax rate per acre on the small home is $4,604 – but the house in the exclusive enclave enjoys a lower rate of $3,781 per acre.