“It was really hard to navigate, being so young, having to be independent and just figure it out on my own. You have to know your worth to realize you deserve better, to take yourself out of that situation.” —Amber
Black Butterfly House sits a few miles from downtown Minneapolis, a picturesque home with a garage, back deck, trimmed bushes, and modest front yard facing the main road. Its petite gray frame and gable roof don’t stand out among other homes on the street. But inside, it’s far from ordinary.
Amber can hardly believe the journey that led her to buy the house last year. She was conscious that as a Black woman, she was statistically much less likely to become a homeowner. As the daughter of a single mother and schoolteacher in Mississippi, she felt the impacts of poverty in her life. Though she found joy in her extended family relationships as a teen, her mother's choice to move to Minnesota for better pay left young Amber isolated and facing new challenges.
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