Evelyn and Grattan Betancourt bought their "forever" home in 1986. It's two-stories tall, with a brick front and a wide lawn. Some evenings, deer come out of the woods and linger in their yard."This was our first, and it'll be our only home," says Evelyn.The Betancourts live in Fort Washington, Md., located in one of the wealthiest majority-black counties in the United States: Prince George's, just east of Washington, D.C.The median income in the county of about 900,000 people is $73,000 a year — more than $20,000 higher than the national average.But not all is what it seems."When you look at this neighborhood, it has kind of a look of middle class prosperity," Grattan says. "But the reality is — and we're aware of this — that many people here, even though they've lived here many years, are fighting to save their home."Around the country, black middle class neighborhoods have recovered from the housing crash much more slowly than white neighborhoods.More than a quarter of the homes in
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