At its core, Perry’s work and research is very personal, intimate and familial, because it’s for and about Black people, and his life experience has made him exceptionally sensitive and conversant in the patterns of socioeconomic disparitybut what he’s doing is also a public service for the common good.Carla Bell, Essence
VERDICT Especially for students of urban planning and public policy but also for those seriously interested in equity and social change in America, this work combines extraordinarily readable, well-documented data analysis with a people-oriented call for activism.Library Journal
Perry reflects on the good, the bad and the ugly, and even apologizes along the way for falling short of what he’s now challenging others to doto see and understand black lives and black places as inherently worthy of investment.Oscar Perry Abello, NextCity
Know Your Price: Valuing Black Live and Property in America’s Black Cities is an important contribution that clearly makes the case for how any path forward to ensure Black futures will require the dismantling of structural racism, centering Black communities and Black people as assets, and distributing resources accordingly.Monica McLemore, BLAVITY
A bracing look at the systemic devaluation of black property and a rousing call to empower majority-black communities to build wealth through asset-based development.Anthony M. Barr, The American Conservative
The book is powerful and moving; the stories of his childhood in Wilkinsburg, PA, and the medical struggles he and his wife faced are both searing and illuminating. But Perry also delivers the kinds of facts, figures and charts that one would expect from a Brookings Institution fellow.Peter Greene, Forbes
The book is an obvious choice for courses in urban studies and racial inequality, but also (e)valuation and economics. Perry effectively highlights the value of Black communities while acknowledging the systematic disinvestment and structural racism that have devalued them.Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana, Social Force