My siblings and I are trying to decide what to do about our parents' house in a neighborhood where property values have made it impossible for the families who've lived there for generations to afford staying and we can't agree whether selling it for market value makes us part of the problem. The data on displacement is clear but what it means for our specific situation isn't and we're all projecting our own politics onto this family decision.
More people experience this than they realize.
Family financial decisions become political statements when individual choices operate within systems of structural inequality.
“Where Are You with Inequality — the data and the debate?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.