If you’re interested in sharing your opinion on any cultural, political or personal topic, create an  account here  and check out our  how-to post  to learn more. Opinions are the writer’s own and not those of Blavity's. ____ In East and West Baltimore, you’ll find blocks and blocks of vacant and abandoned houses, thousands altogether. I want to sell these properties for one dollar not to developers but to our city’s legacy residents — the people who have been holding up our neighborhoods in the face of disproportional disinvestment, and the resulting crime, grime and blight. Using a substantial investment from the $641 million Baltimore will receive under the American Rescue Plan, we stand a real chance at confronting the city’s staggering racial wealth gap, closing the gulf between rates of white and Black homeownership, and stemming the tide of displacement that’s contributed to Baltimore’s further population decline. Black Baltimoreans lost their chance at accumulating...