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A fun fact, in 2020 Millennial and Gen Z households borrowed over $1.3 trillion to buy homes and that’s over 35% of total new mortgage debt on a dollar basis. Although I think it’s great to see younger households grow as homeowners and the overall homeownership rate rising, all is not as I would like to see it – especially when we break down the homeownership rate by ethnicity.

 

Bar graph showing homeownership rates for each year from 2016 to 2020 organized by ethnicity. White and non-Hispanic groups are consistently the tallest bars hitting about 70% each year. Black populations range from 41.6% in 2016 to 45.4% in 2020. Asian populations own at rates around 55-60 percent. Hispanic populations homeownership rates slowly raise from 45.9% in 2016 to 50.1% in 2020.

 

And the above report, again from the Census Bureau, showed that although the share of white households who own their homes ticked up it also showed some significant disparities with the ownership rate for black households – although up a little – still well below the levels seen with other ethnicities.

This is a long-term, and systemic issue, that needs to be addressed.

The bottom line is that the ownership rate for Black families was 25 percentage points lower than that for white families in 2020 and was even higher in the 4th quarter of the year when it almost hit 30%.

I am pleased that the Biden administration does have plans to try to address this inequality by looking to expand the ability of the Federal Housing Authority to provide mortgages and this might, if it gets approved, start to address this very significant issue. Of course, nothing will be fixed immediately, but it is a major concern and sincerely hope that, over time, this discrepancy will be addressed.

Source: US Census Bureau, by way of The New York Times

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