Black borrowers are denied mortgages at 3 times the rate of white borrowers in these cities

Black borrowers are denied mortgages at 3 times the rate of white borrowers in these cities. Nearly 16% of Black Americans who apply for mortgages are rejected, while just 7% of white Americans are rejected, according to a new analysis of Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data from Redfin. That gap is even wider in Milwuakee, San Francisco, Detroit, Chicago and St. Louis. In those cities, denial rates for Black borrowers are more are more than 10 percentage points higher than they are for white borrowers. In Milwaukee and San