Report highlights obstacles and suggests solutions to Black homeownership in Detroit

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.”