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This home was built on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in 2020 for Alvina White Bull by the South Dakota Governor’s House Program. Construction is complete but White Bull hasn’t been able to move in because the COVID-19 pandemic has delayed the processing of paperwork. Photo: Courtesy Alvina White Bull
The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed more Native Americans living on reservations in South Dakota to seek homeownership, a potential step toward greater family financial security and community stability in some of the state’s most impoverished regions.
But long-standing institutional, economic and geographic barriers continue to block some reservation residents from buying a home.
During the first…