Columbus just announced nearly $3 million to prevent evictions and “stabilize families”, sounds good right? here’s what they not telling you, eviction prevention is a short term intervention, it provides legal aid, mediation, and emergency support to reduce immediate displacement, but it does not directly change rent pricing, increase affordable housing supply, or expand Black homeownership, which are the core drivers of housing stability, so while this may reduce some immediate eviction filings, the long term conditions that create housing instability remain in place, now this is where the Black Wall comes in, because we don’t measure announcements, we measure outcomes, under the Housing category this policy would be tracked as a stabilization effort, not a structural housing solution, meaning it must be measured against specific outcome metrics, did eviction filings decrease year over year, did rent burden percentages drop for Black households, did Black homeownership rates increase, did displacement slow in historically impacted neighborhoods, if those indicators do not improve then the policy did not change the housing condition, it only delayed the impact, and that matters because on the Black Wall Grade Card policies are not judged by intent or funding amount, they are judged by measurable change in real world conditions, so the real question isn’t did the city spend $3 million, the real question is will this produce a measurable improvement in Black housing outcomes or will the data show that conditions remained the same