Gap widens between Black and white homeownership

The gap between Black and white homeownership widened this year, according Harvard’s annual housing study, released last week from the university’s Joint Center for Housing Studies. A panel moderated by the Wall Street Journal’s Nicole Friedman convened to talk about the findings and implications of the report. In reflecting on the findings, Marietta Rodriguez, president and CEO of NeighborWorks America, started by saying we have to think about this issue in the context of history.

“This…