Around Massachusetts, racial divides persist
Naomi Cordova didn’t want to buy a home in Brockton. In fact, she was dead set against it. But the working-class city is where Cordova ended up, despite the fact that she’s employed at a tech company in downtown Boston and makes more than $90,000 a year.
With a price tag limit of$275,000, little money for a down payment, and no desire to buy a fixer-upper, Cordova, a 34-year-old single mother of Puerto Rican and African-American descent, felt she had few other options. The city, which she associates mainly with its gang violence, isn’t where she feels she belongs.
“I want to live in a neighborhood where I feel like the makeup of the neighborhood is more representative of where I’m at in my life,” she said.
Cordova’s reluctant arrival in Brockton underscores the racial divisions in homeownership around the region.
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