DJ Simmons
Mar 7, 2023
The likelihood of a child becoming a homeowner increases 8.4% if their parents are homeowners, according to a study by the Urban Institute.
In the past decade, a generation of Hidden Valley’s sons and daughters have returned to the neighborhood to carry on its legacy of Black homeownership.
“For me home has always been where I could go. It was that one place that I felt I could be myself, good, bad and ugly. And I think that’s what home should feel like. I would hope that’s what most people would feel and it’s the reason I’ve been so adamant about keeping the home,” says Svenya Nimmons, who moved from Los Angeles, California, to Hidden Valley in Charlotte in 2020, to live in her childhood home after her mother died from cancer.
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