Minority Homeownership Reports

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>> The State of the Nation’s Housing 2007
Presented by The Joint Center For Housing Studies of Harvard University. Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies is the nation’s leading center for information and research on housing in the United States. Established in 1959, the Joint Center is a collaborative unit affiliated with the Harvard Design School and the Kennedy School of Government.

>> Minority Home Ownership Symposium Issues Update [PDF, 864 KB]
This paper summarizes issued covered during NeighborWorks® America's Minority Home Ownership symposium as well as other resources on the topic of increasing minority home ownership. March 2004

>> Blueprint for the American Dream [PDF, 239 KB]
America’s Homeownership Challenge has generated an unprecedented response from the nation’s homebuilders, realtors, nonprofits and other concerned parties. They have answered President Bush’s challenge because they understand that homeownership is the single most powerful tool a family can use to improve its quality of life. (Blueprint Partners Report)

>> Blueprint for the American Dream: Neighborhood Reinvestment Commitment Letter
This commitment letter to President Bush is from a group of organizations that joined together to narrow the homeownership gap between minorities and white families. (June 17, 2002)

NeighborWorks America Minority Home Ownership Case Studies

>> Minority Homeownership Strategies [PDF, 148 KB]
Excerpts from Neighborhood Reinvestment’s publications entitled Winning Strategies: Best Practices in Homeownership Promotion produced by the NeighborWorks Campaign for Home Ownership.

>> Insights Into the Minority Homebuying Experience — The Mortgage Application Process, Research Institute for Housing America [PDF, 330 KB]
A Special Report, this study is a series of highlights from focus groups among African-Americans and Hispanics/Latinos who had applied for a mortgage. Conducted by ReedHaldyMcIntosh, 2003.

>> Increasing Hispanic Homeownership: Strategies for Programs and Public Policy [PDF, 820 KB]
This Issue Brief describes the principal barriers to Latino homeownership, discusses findings from recent research and NCLR’s own experience in the field regarding how to close the homeownership gap between Latinos and Whites. National Council of La Raza, June 2002.

>> Asian Americans for Equality: A Case Study of Strategies for Expanding Immigrant Homeownership [PDF, 106 KB]
Asian Americans for Equality (AAFE) is a civil rights and housing organization providing homeownership and other services to Asian Americans, a group that often faces language, cultural, credit, and financial difficulties in achieving homeownership. David Listokin and Barbara Listokin, Fannie Mae Foundation, 2001.

>> Reaching Emerging and Underserved Home Ownership Markets [PDF, 232 KB]
This paper presents new developments on how financial institutions, community-based organizations and other housing industry actors are reaching emerging and underserved markets to create home ownership opportunities. Georgetown University Institute for the Study of International Migration and The LISC Center for Home Ownership Summit 2001: Research Series, 2001.

>> Mind the Gap: Issues In Overcoming the Information, Income, Wealth, and Supply Gaps Facing Potential Buyers of Affordable Homes [PDF, 331 KB]
While the overall homeownership rate in the United States is at an all-time high, the gap between the ownership rates of low-income and higher-income households remains wide. Find out why information gaps are best addressed by programs that provide home buyer counseling and education. By J. Michael Collins and Doug Dylla, NeighborWorks America, NeighborWorks Campaign for Home Ownership. Published by The LISC Center for Home Ownership and the LISC Knowledge Sharing Initiative, 2000.

>> Selected Bibliography of Homeownership Materials [PDF, 145 KB]
This bibliography contains a variety of minority homeownership related resources including specific resources for Asian Americans, African Americans, Latinos/Hispanics and Native Americans. NeighborWorks America.