The disparity between the average national home value and that of Detroit’s black homeowners has tripled in recent years and has far-reaching consequences for future generational wealth. While some attribute the gap to ongoing systemic racial issues and the foreclosure crisis, one professor of architecture and urban planning feels the study that produced the data is flawed. In the current year, there are no signs of the gap widening further, but also no signs the gap is shrinking. For a great discussion of the role of redlining in impeding African-American wealth, view the PBS documentary The House We Live In.