The Role of Family Wealth in Reinforcing Generational Divides [inequality.org]

Alicia Doktor 3/5/194:00 AM

One way that extreme inequality shows up in our lives is unequal opportunity in homeownership.

And for millennials, these inequalities are compounded by the absence of publicly-supported mortgage programs, such as those that helped white boomers buy their homes after World War Two.

Both of us – Jessicah Pierre and Chuck Collins from the Program on Inequality at the Institute for Policy Studies – were interviewed for an article in the “Style Section” of the The New York Times, “Fly on My Own? Get Real.” Read what we had to say below.

[For more on this story by Chuck Collins and Jessicah Pierre, go to https://inequality.org/great-d...s/?source=newsletter]

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