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Keep On Dreaming: Barriers to Homeownership in the United States and York City, PA

This article explore the barriers faced by people interested in homeownership. The author identifies three main barriers: affordability, systemic, and personal.

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The Program "It's About Change" Annual Report 2020-2021

The Program “It’s About Change” focuses on preventing recidivism in York and Harrisburg. This report details the organization’s impact, including the number of clients, their demographic characteristics, and services provided.

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Grasping for the American Dream: Racial Segregation, Social Mobility, and Homeownership

In this book, Taplin-Kaguru explores how the exclusion of Black Americans from homeownership has impacted the larger system of race inequality in America, including disparities in education, health, employment, and criminal justice.

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Perceptions of Discrimination Among Persons with Serious Mental Illness

Researchers use 1,824 interview with people who have a serious mental illness to explain the frequent housing, employment, and education discrimination this group experiences.

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Communities of Color Poised to Lose Their Homes as Eviction Moratoriums Lift

Black and brown Americans have been disproportionately affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Once the federal eviction moratorium is over, communities of color are going to be hit the hardest with mass evictions, which will increase their overall poverty and homeownership rates.

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Before the Pandemic, Homeowners of Color Faced Structural Barriers to the Benefits of Homeownership

This report shows how the benefits to homeownership have been unequally distributed among communities of color and how racial discrimination has reduced the financial benefits of homeownership.

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How we live—York county's black community, 1969-2017

Since the race riots in 1968 and 1969, the black and white income gap in York has remained unchanged. The median income of black households has decreased, and family poverty of black households has increased, making it even harder for black households to afford the rising costs of homeownership.

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Demographic Characteristics for Occupied Housing Units in America

This chart shows the disparities in homeownership as it relates to the race of residents in occupied housing units and can be used to support claims of housing discrimination.

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Life and Liberty in the Pursuit of Housing: Rethinking Renting and Owning in Post-Crisis America

This article goes into the social impact of housing policy, and how it is responsible for the construction of “socially intolerance ideologies around neighborhood desirability and who constitutes desirable neighbors”

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