By Ras J. Baraka We learned last week that Newark is leading the country in a category we desperately want to avoid. The Rutgers Center on Law, Inequality and Metropolitan Equity (CLiME) quantified a disturbing trend that threatens to undo all we have done to make homeownership more affordable for Newark residents and find permanent housing for our homeless residents. The CLiME report, called“Who Owns Newark?” shows that in almost half of all residential real estate transactions in Newark between 2017 and early 2020, the buyers were not individuals looking to buy new homes or invest in our nei…