Director of Research, Amber S. Hendley, presenting to the Chicago Community Trust’s Advancing Equity: Closing Homeownership Gap cohort. Pictured comparing 2021 mortgage lending differences between Black and White homebuyers in Folded Map™ twin communities of Greater Englewood and Edgewater.

Reframing the Racial Wealth Gap

This is the start of a solutions-focused series designed to reframe homeownership’s role in closing the Black-White wealth gap. The topic of article one is: Homeownership Alone Will Not Close the Racial Wealth Gap: On Income Inequality and Systemic...