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The city, where a larger percentage of Black and Latinx people own homes than their White counterparts, is the backdrop for studying the pandemic's economic impact on communities of color.

However, researchers are delving into data to determine how much the pandemic and its economic fallout will threaten progress.

While studies have shown the rate of single-women homeownership increasing at a brisk pace, further research indicates women pay more for houses and make less when selling.

Years of segregation and economic inequality shoehorned many people of color into living in neighborhoods that are more vulnerable to increasingly frequent storms, economists report.

That the housing industry is further behind than the country as a whole when it comes to inclusion reportedly could be contributing to the enormous racial gap in homeownership.