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Friday, January 4, 2018. View Ridge neighborhood in North Seattle. NE 75th Street runs left to right with the Sand Point Country Club behind and Lake Washington in the distance. For a story about more than a dozen neighborhoods including View Ridge that had racist allowing only whites or caucasions to own the land the houses sit on. 208907
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Census data shows that the median home value in King County in 1980 was $71,400, which, in today's dollars, is about $225,000. That's well below half of what it is now.

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Friday, January 4, 2018. View Ridge neighborhood in North Seattle. NE 75th Street runs left to right with the Sand Point Country Club behind and Lake Washington in the distance. For a story about more than a dozen neighborhoods including View Ridge that had racist allowing only whites or caucasions to own the land the houses sit on. 208907

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