{"id":73863,"date":"2022-02-11T05:00:52","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T13:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/?p=73863"},"modified":"2022-02-10T13:17:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T21:17:00","slug":"black-real-estate-wealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/black-real-estate-wealth\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Reasons To Be Optimistic About Black Real Estate Wealth"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Black real estate wealth hit a record high in 2021&#8211; here is why I am hopeful it will continue to rise during this decade<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Black real estate wealth&#8211;the total value of homes owned by Black people in America&#8211;rose 28.9% year over year to a record high of $2.2 trillion in the third quarter of 2021, according to data from the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalreserve.gov\/releases\/z1\/dataviz\/dfa\/distribute\/chart\/#quarter:128;series:Real%20estate;demographic:race;population:3;units:levels;range:1989.3,2021.3\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Federal Reserve<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Black real estate equity&#8211;real estate value minus mortgage debt&#8211;also set a record at $1.4 trillion, a 45% increase from the previous year. The share of real-estate wealth owned by Black Americans also hit a record, but remains disproportionately small at 6%, up from 5.3% the previous year. White (non-Hispanic) Americans currently own a disproportionately large share of real estate wealth at 75.7%, down from 77.1% the previous year. Black people represent <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/quickfacts\/fact\/table\/US\/RHI225219\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">13.4% of the U.S. population<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, while non-Hispanic white people represent 60.1%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-73864 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Black-Real-Estate-Wealth-1024x842.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Black-Real-Estate-Wealth-1024x842.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Black-Real-Estate-Wealth-300x247.png 300w, https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Black-Real-Estate-Wealth-768x632.png 768w, https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Black-Real-Estate-Wealth-1536x1263.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Black-Real-Estate-Wealth.png 1459w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These improvements in Black real estate wealth are worth celebrating, but there is still a long way to go to close the Black-white real estate wealth gap. Here are three reasons why I am optimistic that Black real estate wealth will continue to grow over the next decade.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Credit-score reform<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the things holding back Black Americans from accumulating real estate wealth is access to financing. Black homeownership reached a peak of 49.1% in 2004, but after the housing bubble burst, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/economy\/for-black-americans-financial-damage-from-subprime-implosion-is-likely-to-last\/2012\/07\/08\/gJQAwNmzWW_story.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">many Black homeowners were unable to make mortgage payments<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and were forced to sell or enter foreclosure.The Black homeownership rate fell to a low\u00a0 of 41.6% in 2016 and still hasn\u2019t fully recovered&#8211; the Black homeownership rate was 44.2% in 2021.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since the foreclosure crisis, lending standards have become much stricter, making it difficult for Black potential homebuyers to secure a mortgage. For example, the majority of borrowers&#8211;those to whom a bank agrees to loan money to buy a home&#8211;have a credit score above 760. Before the Great Recession, the majority of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorkfed.org\/medialibrary\/interactives\/householdcredit\/data\/pdf\/hhdc_2020q4.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mortgage borrowers had a credit score below 760<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. But most&#8211;54%&#8211;Black Americans have a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/01\/28\/black-and-hispanic-americans-often-have-lower-credit-scores.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">credit score below 640<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or no credit score at all, compared to 37% of white Americans. To put that into context, qualifying for a mortgage with a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorkfed.org\/medialibrary\/interactives\/householdcredit\/data\/pdf\/hhdc_2020q4.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">credit score below 640 is highly uncommon<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> now that subprime lending has virtually gone extinct. Credit scores do not directly consider race, but 30% of Black Americans <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/01\/28\/black-and-hispanic-americans-often-have-lower-credit-scores.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">feel they were misinformed or tricked<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> during their first experiences with credit compared to only 18% of White Americans, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/hai.stanford.edu\/news\/how-flawed-data-aggravates-inequality-credit#:~:text=It's%20not%20that%20the%20credit,borrowers%20have%20limited%20credit%20histories.\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">flawed data can exacerbate racial bias<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in credit scores.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But there is currently a movement to overhaul the credit system. The Financial Services Committee has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/financialservices.house.gov\/issues\/reforming-our-nation-s-credit-scoring-reporting-practices.htm\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">proposed legislation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that could narrow the Black-white credit gap. The proposed legislation would protect the credit standing of victims of predatory lending and create federal oversight into credit scoring models. Additionally, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/personal-finance\/credit-gap-black-americans-building-wealth-2021-1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">credit scoring companies like Experian have been experimenting<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with changes to their formulas that would factor in rent payments, utility bills and streaming services, which could help people with no credit or poor credit achieve a better credit score.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The YIMBY movement\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In order to narrow the Black-white real estate wealth gap, we need to increase the supply of homes for sale in the places where Black people live. Unfortunately, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/black-homebuyers-more-impacted-by-housing-shortage-rising-prices\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Black homebuyers have faced sharper declines<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in homes for sale than white homebuyers. But this trend could reverse thanks to the YIMBY (yes in my back yard) movement that aims to do away with exclusionary zoning that prohibits multifamily housing and contributes to rising home prices and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC4083588\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">racial segregation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. There have been several major wins for the YIMBY movement in recent years. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/united-states\/2021\/09\/23\/california-ends-single-family-zoning\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">California<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/07\/01\/737798440\/oregon-legislature-votes-to-essentially-ban-single-family-zoning\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oregon<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2019\/07\/11\/housing-crisis-single-family-homes-policy-227265\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Minneapolis<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> have all eliminated single family zoning. These zoning reforms are <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2022\/02\/03\/woodside-mountain-lions-housing-california\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">facing pushback from current homeowners<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who don\u2019t want multifamily housing <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/opinion\/editorials\/article\/Editorial-Bay-Area-NIMBYs-are-saying-the-racist-16299592.php\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(or the kinds of people who live in multifamily housing<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) in their neighborhoods. While it\u2019s largely too soon to measure the success of these reforms, I believe the YIMBY movement will gain more momentum and we will see more development of homes that Black people have a chance at affording. That\u2019s because the YIMBY movement is non-partisan&#8211; leaders on the left and right, from Congresswoman <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.curbed.com\/2022\/01\/aoc-2022-pledge-pro-housing-yimby.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alexandria Ocasio Cortes (D)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2019\/06\/26\/the-yimby-movement-has-made-it-to-d-c-republicans-are-leading-the-way\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Senator Todd Young<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (R) are embracing the YIMBY movement.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Equitable economic growth<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Black wages, adjusted for inflation, have only <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/fred.stlouisfed.org\/series\/LEU0252884600Q\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">grown a paltry 1.4%<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> since the start of 2002; meanwhile <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/fred.stlouisfed.org\/series\/LEU0252883700Q\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">white wages are up 6.6%<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. But there are signs Black wage growth will start to catch up to white wage growth, which would allow more Black people to afford to buy homes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am hopeful that the current labor shortage, along with the normalization of remote work, will lead to better employment opportunities for Black Americans. A tight labor market will benefit <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org\/2021\/02\/black-and-white-differences-in-the-labor-market-recovery-from-covid-19\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Black workers, who have historically suffered the most from weak labor markets<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The normalization of remote work will allow companies headquartered in places with low Black populations such as Silicon Valley and Seattle to hire Black workers in places where they are more likely to live, like Atlanta and Houston.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am also optimistic about the future of HBCUs (historically Black colleges and universities). <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mckinsey.com\/industries\/education\/our-insights\/how-hbcus-can-accelerate-black-economic-mobility\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HBCUs historically have had a better track record<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of increasing economic mobility for their graduates than other U.S. colleges and universities. There have been many <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/05\/01\/992480703\/nations-largest-hbcu-sees-record-breaking-donations\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">recent large donations to HBCUs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which should give these institutions even more resources to educate and serve their students. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My own family&#8217;s story of economic mobility started with my great-grandfather, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=R0MDAAAAMBAJ&amp;pg=PA64&amp;lpg=PA64&amp;dq=walter+merrick+calypso&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=ds5VNSn-Xy&amp;sig=ACfU3U25wKdXAJxajgPIW965kvwfyznVaQ&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiYrfeVjvP1AhW0j4kEHbG8DccQ6AF6BAgWEAM#v=onepage&amp;q=walter%20merrick%20calypso&amp;f=false\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Walter Merrick<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, immigrating from Trinidad to attend Howard University\u2019s medical school in 1915. He became a physician in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/neighborhood\/349307\/NY\/Manhattan\/Harlem\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Harlem<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and used his earnings to buy a brownstone townhome in the formerly red-lined Brooklyn neighborhood of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/neighborhood\/224178\/NY\/New-York\/Bedford-Stuyvesant\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bed-Stuy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in 1931. My aunt still owns the home, and I lived there rent-free while I interned in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/city\/35948\/NY\/Manhattan\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manhattan<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in 2008, so I know first-hand the way that HBCUs foster the creation of Black intergenerational wealth and economic opportunity.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black real estate wealth hit a record high in 2021&#8211; here is why I am hopeful it will continue to rise during this decade Black real estate wealth&#8211;the total value of homes owned by Black people in America&#8211;rose 28.9% year over year to a record high of $2.2 trillion in the third quarter of 2021, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13160,"featured_media":73865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[15],"dashboard":[],"coauthors":[119],"class_list":["post-73863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-race-real-estate","tag-diversity"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.7 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - 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