Tag: Homeownership
Homeownership rebounds to 65% nationally, but lags for black, Hispanic families
PROVIDENCE – A recent analysis of U.S. census information by the National Association of Realtors reveals that homeownership rates have rebounded to 65% across...
For blacks, housing crisis endures
Here’s one way the 2008 financial crisis is still very much with us: For black Americans, homeownership is more out of reach than it...
RIHousing Loan Center Welcomes Gabriela Godoy as Mortgage Originator
Gabriela (‘Gaby’) Godoy joins the RIHousing Loan Center with more than 15 years of experience in mortgage banking and loan servicing, with multilingual abilities....
Survey: Millennials don’t feel good about homeownership
PROVIDENCE – Millennials are much less likely to feel good about owning a home than baby boomers, according to a recent survey of 1,000...
Wall Street squeezing housing
President George W. Bush pledged to make the U.S. an “ownership society” and tried to promote homeownership via tax credits, assistance with down payments...
Five Questions With Marcela Betancur
Marcela Betancur | Director, Latino Policy Institute at Roger Williams University
1. You have significant experience in housing. How does this relate to the work...
Housing is back, but the American dream isn’t?
The housing market has made a remarkable – if partial – recovery since the disaster that befell it 10 years ago. In the years...
Five Questions With Jim Vincent
Jim Vincent | President, NAACP Providence Branch
1. What is on top of the NAACP Providence Branch agenda? Gentrification in Providence is on the rise,...
Opinion: Millennials leave the basement to buy homes
A few years ago, I wrote “The economy will one day improve, and the millennials will move out of their parents’ basements. When that happens, expect...
Report: R.I. homeownership rates declined from 2009-2015
PROVIDENCE – Between 2009 and 2015, homeownership declined in Rhode Island for every age group except for those 60 and older, according to a...
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