Here are 12 facts about U.S. Black Home Ownership that are rarely talked about. They’re from my 76 Secrets of U.S. Home Ownership project.

Black Home Ownership

#3 – For Black Home Ownership, “Affordable” Housing Policies Have Been Worse Than Jim Crow

#18 – FHA was Extremely Racist

#19 – Worse Than Redlining

#20 – From 1940 to 1970 the Black Home Ownership Rate Increased More in the South than the North

#21 – Redlining was a National Policy to Segregate the North

#22 – The National Association of Realtors Opposed the 1968 Fair Housing Act

#23 – The 1968 Fair Housing Act had Very Weak Enforcement

#24 – The Same 1968 FHA Program that Devastated Many Black Inner Cities Caused a Boom in New Home Construction in the White Suburbs

#25 – The Black Home Ownership Rate is Higher Today in the South than in the North

#26 – The Black Home Ownership Rate Is NOT Getting Any Closer to the White Home Ownership Rate!

#27 – Famously Liberal Minneapolis is the Worst City in the U.S. When Comparing the Black Home Ownership Rate to the White Home Ownership Rate

#28 – Past Redlining Has Often Been Used to Justify Government Policies that Encourage Selling “Affordable” (Higher-Foreclosure) Mortgages to People of Color