Erie’s Black Wall Street Helps Renters Become Owners

PA Local Heroes: Meet the community organizer helping boost Black homeownership rates

Erie’s Black Wall Street offers a workshop to prospective homebuyers in Erie County to help them navigate the purchase. “Homeownership helps create community,” says the nonprofit’s director.

Erie’s Black Wall Street helps renters become owners

PA Local Heroes is a monthly feature sponsored by Ballard Spahr. Installments appear first in PA Local, Spotlight PA’s weekly newsletter that takes a fresh, positive look at the incredible people, beautiful places, and delicious food of Pennsylvania. Sign up for free here. Erie’s Black Wall Street started off as a Facebook group to bring the area’s Black community together. In the late 2010s, Kyra Taylor, co-founder of the group alongside her fr…