Kamala Harris’ new $8M mansion is in a neighborhood with just about no black residents

Regardless of a career-long dedication to combating racial disparities in housing and touting the significance of dwelling amongst Black folks, former Vice President Kamala Harris’ new California mansion is located in a neighborhood with just about no racial variety.

Harris’ new 4,000-square-foot property, which stories point out she acquired for $8.15 million, is situated within the unique seaside group of Level Dume and consists of ocean views, a number of wine fridges, personal golf greens and sufficient parking to accommodate 5 automobiles.

Level Dume is located solely inside Census tract 8004.08, which the Census Bureau’s American Group Survey estimated was simply 0.2% Black and roughly 94% White as of 2019.

Harris’ alternative of neighborhood could shock longtime observers given previous feedback she has made concerning the significance of dwelling amongst different Black People.

“Whenever you’re at (a traditionally Black school or college), and particularly one with the dimensions and with the historical past of Howard College — and in addition within the context of additionally being in D.C., which was identified endlessly as being ‘Chocolate Metropolis’ — it simply turns into about you understanding that there’s a entire world of people who find themselves such as you,” Harris informed a Washington Submit reporter in 2019, reflecting on her expertise rising up in primarily White social circles then attending a traditionally Black school in a predominantly African American metropolis.

“It was extra, for me, concerning the numerosity than it was the variety, I grew up in a group the place there have been many representations of variety,” she added. “Going to Howard, there have been so many (Black folks)! They usually’re all in your age group, in your part of life.”

Now, nonetheless, Harris has chosen to place roots down in a group that a minimum of one group has accused of attempting to maintain their seashores closed off to minorities.

“Regardless of the veneer of a laid again group of surfers who’re one with nature, there are boundaries to entry that preserve most BIPOC folks away,” a pair of non-White surfers wrote in a 2025 overview of Harris’s new neighborhood.

Harris spent a large portion of her profession working to tear down comparable boundaries.

In 2012, as California’s lawyer basic, for example, she joined a Supreme Court docket transient arguing that the Truthful Housing Act may be enforced when insurance policies have a “disparate impression” throughout completely different racial teams, even when the insurance policies themselves are racially impartial.

As a presidential candidate, she proposed $100 billion in help for households in traditionally redlined communities and as vp she promoted the Biden administration’s efforts to fight racial bias in dwelling value determinations.

Throughout Harris’ 2020 presidential marketing campaign, she confronted questions concerning the authenticity of her African American identification attributable to her Indian and Jamaican heritage and upbringing in prosperous, primarily White areas. The assaults resurfaced in 2024, when then-candidate Donald Trump accused Harris of utilizing her Black identification for political acquire.

Harris caught flak through the 2024 marketing campaign for figuring out with Oakland, California, though she spent most of her childhood rising up in Berkeley, California, which was considerably much less racially various. As an adolescent, she moved to Montreal, one other predominantly White metropolis, together with her mom.

Doug Emhoff, Harris’ husband, can be White.

Harris has returned to the headlines in current weeks amid hypothesis that she could make a third run for the presidency in 2028.

A consultant for the previous vp didn’t reply to a request for remark when reached by Fox Information Digital Wednesday.

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