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Median Value of Assests for Households, by Type of Asset Owned
1media/Median assests for households_thumb.png2022-12-02T06:42:12-08:00Marcus Harris7e23857364c2363b25872718aea81323bdd37773412372Table of Median Value of Assests for Households, by Type of Asset Ownedplain2022-12-06T16:48:56-08:00U.S. Census Bureau, 2020Marcus Harris7e23857364c2363b25872718aea81323bdd37773
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12022-12-02T06:40:11-08:00Bringing it Home6plain2022-12-12T12:18:20-08:00 Racial discrimination in housing, while now illegal, has served as a major contributor to the racial wealth gap between African Americans and Whites in the United States. The table shown lists the median value of assets for households, by type of asset owned from the U.S. Census Bureau for 2019.
As illustrated in the table, the differences are stark and the gap is wide, how do we bridge it? A great place to start is to increase the number of African Americans owner occupied households.
