Report highlights obstacles and suggests solutions to Black homeownership in Detroit  - WDET 101.9 FM
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Mortgage lending in the City of Detroit is trending upward despite African-Americans being disproportionately prevented from buying homes, according to a new Detroit Future City report.

Anika Goss says Black Detroiters are denied mortgages at rates that are much higher than their white peers. “For the upper income [bracket], African Americans were still denied at a rate of 23 percent as opposed to white borrowers that were being denied at a rate of 10 percent. And so, there is something in the system that is pushing African Americans, even upper income African Americans, at a higher denial rate.”