Forum: Addressing Growing Gaps in Homeownership Opportunities

Demographic shifts along generational, racial and socioeconomic lines are impacting the housing market, emphasizing growing gaps in homeownership opportunities. These shifts, to be addressed at Zillow®’s economic forum this month in Washington, D.C., include the higher denial rates of black mortgage applicants and the growing number of young adults living at home.
The homeownership rate among black Americans, especially, has remained lower than the national homeownership for 100 years,