Kiyadh Burt

For us, community-based media, what it looks like for us is, again, an Indigenous-led newsroom by Indigenous journalists. Again, I said it earlier: nuance and context you can’t find anywhere else, even in mainstream media. “Just because a story is new to you, it’s not new to the community.” And one example is we have a political reporter here in DC and she went to a Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hearing.

Homeownership is a key contributor to wealth generation, yet homeownership rates vary significantly by race. According to the National Association of Realtors, as of March 2023, while 72.7 percent of White Americans were homeowners, only 44 percent of Black Americans were homeowners (the rate for Latinx Americans was 50.6 percent and for Asian Americans 62.8 percent). The Black-White homeownership gap, the report adds, was the highest in 2023 that it had been in a decade.

By Kiyadh Burt This fall marks the end of the Department of Education’s COVID-19 student, which means that roughly 43 million borrowers with federal student loans will be expected to start payments again in October, posing a major setback in the fight to close the racial wealth gap. One of the primary wealth building tools, caught in the crosshairs of this policy, is homeownership.