Homeownership Rates 1900 - 2023

White and Black Homeownership rates since 1900. The gap between them represents generations of inequality in the ability of Black families to build wealth at the pace of White families.

From 1900-1990 mid-decade figures are based on straight line interpolation of decennial census data.
1900-1990 https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w7277/w7277.pdf
1994-2023 Black Alone https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BOAAAHORUSQ156N
1994-2023 White Alone https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NHWAHORUSQ156N
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