Systemic racism is deeply rooted in our nation’s housing market. Redlining and other forms of housing discrimination, going back to slavery, have laid the foundation for a deeply unequal housing ...

Ben Slayton has put in more than 56 years in the real estate and mortgage industry. He was the first Black member of the National Association of Realtors, the first Black Century 21 Real Estate ...

A Black couple had a White friend show their home and its appraisal rose by nearly half a million dollars By Joe Johns , Laura Robinson and Nicole Chavez , CNN 4 minute read ...

Increasing the housing supply for Black Americans would be one of the quickest and most effective ways to bring about a more just society. Even now, the legacies of “red-lining” and other ...

The coronavirus pandemic has underscored housing disparities between Black and white people in Louisville, with Black residents more likely to face financial hardships that put them behind on rent ...

The average Black family has only one-eighth the wealth of the average white family — $23,000 compared to about $184,000. And much of that difference is due to the lack of home equity. Enlarge ...

In 1960, eight years before the Fair Housing Act, which prohibits property owners, financial institutions and landlords from discriminating based on race, the homeownership gap between white (65% ...

In a separate housing study from the Public Policy Institute of California, it is revealed that in 2019, the state's Black homeownership rate was 36.8%, while the rate for white households was ...

The persistent gap in homeownership rates between Black and white Americans highlights the enduring inequities embedded in the housing market. While two-thirds of white millennials have purchased ...

Not everyone has benefited equally from the pandemic-era housing boom—the gap between Black and White homeownership rates grew to its widest in a decade in the first two years since COVID-19 hit.

OPINION: Disparities in Black and white homeownership are a direct result of years of policies that keep Black people from accessing housing. “There’s just no inventory for affordable housing ...

Indeed, housing affordability affects Black residents more due to long-standing institutional and societal issues, Valerie White, senior executive director of Local Initiatives Support Corporation ...