Homeownership

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wealth wednesdays black tax stacey tisdale angela yee sayam ibrahim
February 6, 2025
Black homebuyers face higher mortgage rates, fees, and insurance premiums— Angela Yee's Wealth Wednesdays Real Estate Club is fighting it.
Marcia Fudge, secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
February 8, 2024
“The rent is too damn high!” says Marcia Fudge, secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
February 22, 2023
Vice President Kamala Harris announced a new action by HUD to lower FHA mortgage insurance costs for homebuyers across the…
February 7, 2023
With falling housing prices and rising interest rates, it's not an easy time to be a new homeowner in America.…
November 2, 2022
Last year, Black, Latino and Asian households saw the largest increase in homeownership since the Great Recession.
October 4, 2022
More than half of Americans believe it’s unlikely younger people today will have better lives than their parents, according to…
September 1, 2022
Program participants must live in census tracts with more than 50 percent African American and/or Hispanic-Latino residents.
July 19, 2022
"Homeownership is one of the primary ways to attain wealth, and that is a real priority" for Secretary Marcia Fudge,…
July 4, 2022
Tenesia Brown founded Key’s Realty Group five years ago to leave a lasting legacy in the east side community she…
May 13, 2022
The deeds "document the institutionalized racism of the past that we must live with today,” says ASU professor Rashad Shabazz.
Gavel Money thgrio.com
April 16, 2022
Detroit residents were asked about their preferred compensation method after the city illegally inflated property taxes for years.
Companies fail at diversity
March 18, 2022
White applicants fared better at all of the major banks, but only Wells Fargo denied more Black applicants than it…
February 4, 2022
Presently, in comparison to the overall national homeownership rate of 65.5%, Black ownership has drifted around 43 percent.
Sunny Jones thegrio.com
December 21, 2021
Los Angeles realtor Sunny Jones is helping African Americans in her community become homeowners despite gentrification.
Black couple buying home
October 27, 2021
If you’re looking to buy a house, you’ve probably noticed that the market can be pretty crazy these days given…
Queen stars in Human Rights Campaign video, theGrio.com
September 28, 2021
Queen, who is formerly unhoused, is the face of a campaign spearheaded by the Human Rights Campaign to shine a…
A home stands for sale in a Brooklyn
August 23, 2021
The median price of a home in San Diego has reached up to $750,000, out of reach for many Blacks…
Will Smith Jay Z thegeio.com
July 30, 2021
Jay Z and Will Smith are banding together to invest in a company that hopes to turn low income renters…
June 27, 2021
“For people of color, especially Black people, homeownership is wealth. It’s not only wealth to us, but it’s generational wealth,”…
U.S. President Joe Biden
June 1, 2021
Biden is focusing on racial disparity in homeownership and home appraisals that are considerably lower for Black homeowners versus whites.