Honors Program Theses
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Open Access Honors Program Thesis
First Advisor
Lisa Jepsen
Keywords
Home ownership; Race discrimination;
Abstract
A key source of wealth and a symbol of hard work, homeownership is at the heart of the American Dream. The disparity of homeownership between whites and blacks has existed for decades and has only increased. The homeownership rate gap is wider now than before the 1968 Fair Housing Act, with about a 30-percentage point gap. This paper investigates the reasons for the homeownership rate gap by discussing policies history, discriminatory practices, and other minority disadvantages.
Year of Submission
2021
Department
Department of Economics
University Honors Designation
A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the designation University Honors
Date Original
12-2021
Object Description
1 PDF file (21 pages)
Copyright
©2021 Sarah Madsen
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Madsen, Sarah, "Homeownership by race: Factors that explain the homeownership gap between blacks and whites" (2021). Honors Program Theses. 510.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/hpt/510
