Rising house prices don’t just make it harder to become a homeowner – they also widen the racial wealth gap

By Joe LaBriola, Research Assistant Professor, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan

Homeownership – long a cornerstone of the “the American dream” – is increasingly out of reach for the average American. Over the past four decades, U.S. house prices have risen by 75% in real terms, pushing the costs of homeownership for the typical first-time homebuyer to a record high. At the same time, these rising prices have significantly boosted the wealth of existing…

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