6 According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s “Quarterly Residential Vacancies and Homeownership” statistics for the  fourth quarter of 2017, the homeownership rates by race were 72.7 percent for non-Hispanic white households; 42.1 percent and 46.6 percent for black and Hispanic households, respectively; and 58.2 percent for Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islanders. See www.census.gov/housing/hvs/files/currenthvspress.pdf.
7 U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, 2017 Annual Social and Economic Supplement, “ Educational  Attainment in the United States: 2017,” December 14, 2017. 8 William R. Emmons, Ana H. Kent, and Lowell R. Ricketts, The Demographics of Wealth: How Education, Race  and Birth Year Shape Financial Outcome (PDF), Essay No. 1 (St. Louis: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, February 2018).