Since February is Black History Month here are 12 "Secrets" of U.S. Black Home Ownership

Here are 12 facts about U.S. Black Home Ownership that are rarely talked about. They're from my 76 Secrets of U.S. Home Ownership project.

Black Home Ownership

#3 – For Black Home Ownership, “Affordable” Housing Policies Have Been Worse Than Jim Crow

#18 – FHA was Extremely Racist

#19 – Worse Than Redlining

#20 – From 1940 to 1970 the Black Home Ownership Rate Increased More in the South than the North

#21 – Redlining was a National Policy to Segregate the North

#22 – The National Association of Realtors Opposed the 1968 Fair Housing Act

#23 – The 1968 Fair Housing Act had Very Weak Enforcement

#24 – The Same 1968 FHA Program that Devastated Many Black Inner Cities Caused a Boom in New Home Construction in the White Suburbs

#25 – The Black Home Ownership Rate is Higher Today in the South than in the North

#26 – The Black Home Ownership Rate Is NOT Getting Any Closer to the White Home Ownership Rate!

#27 – Famously Liberal Minneapolis is the Worst City in the U.S. When Comparing the Black Home Ownership Rate to the White Home Ownership Rate

#28 – Past Redlining Has Often Been Used to Justify Government Policies that Encourage Selling “Affordable” (Higher-Foreclosure) Mortgages to People of Color

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