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Highlighting Heirs’ Property Ownership and Land Loss

Posted 2020 Reviewed August 24, 2023
Source
USDA CompassLive
Author
Teresa Jackson
About This News Article

A USDA Forest Service publication on heirs’ property ownership across the southern U.S. highlights a kind of land ownership prevalent among lower wealth, African Americans in the Black Belt South, central Appalachian whites, and Hispanic Americans in U.S. southwest colonial communities.

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