Chart: White households disproportionately benefit from housing wealth: Share of total primary and nonprimary household housing wealth held, by race and ethnicity

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White households disproportionately benefit from housing wealth: Share of total primary and nonprimary household housing wealth held, by race and ethnicity

	Primary	Nonprimary
White	80.6%	86.2%
Black	6.5%	5.0%
Hispanic	6.0%	3.6%
Other	6.9%	5.2%

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Note: Primary housing wealth is wealth from owner-occupied housing. Nonprimary housing wealth is wealth from nonowner-occupied housing. Hispanic means “Hispanic any race” and the race/ethnicity categories are mutually exclusive.

Source: Author’s analysis of microdata from the Federal Reserve Board Survey of Consumer Finances (2016)

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