Black homeowners in the states & territories of the u.s.
This visualization started as a simple bar chart and as we shaped it in the round the bars became rays emanating from the center like a comic book punch! So we pulled in the Black Power fist to activate it. The story of Black homeownership in the U.S. is not a wholly positive story. However, to the extent that we place todays numbers in relationship to a larger history there are some rays of light in interesting places as the data show. We see that Black homeownership is much higher in the former slave holding states of the American South. It is particularly, high in Puerto Rico. These data bring up questions critical to current discussions around statehood for Puerto Rico, the shifting Black demographics in U.S. cities and states while exposing existing challenges which continue to put homeownership out of reach. We highlight the 5 states where Black homeownership is over 50%.