New study looks at declines in Bay Area’s Black homeownership rates

A study released this week on Black homeownership in the Bay Area shows the region lost thousands of African American households after 2010.

The report, “Black Communities and the Bay Area’s Housing Crisis” by the Bay Area Equity Atlas, finds that the region lost more than 5,000 Black homeowners from 2010 to 2020 and that Black renters and homeowners were displaced from historically African American communities during that same period.

The study released Thursday includes data analysis of the nine-county Bay Area and examines the role of historically racist policies, like housing segregation in the 20th century, and more recent disasters, like the foreclosure crisis that peaked in 2010, on homeownership trends.