evidence: That means, despite widespread, legal housing discrimination in the 1950s and at least part of the 1960s, the number of black households that owned their own homes increased 20% from 1950 to 1970 but, somehow, 50 years after housing discrimination was outlawed, the black homeownership rate is essentially the same today as it was the day the Fair Housing Act became law. [...] U.S. Black Homeownership Rate [...] I hope to cover the other part of the paradox, why the black homeownership rate is the same today as when the 1968 Fair Housing Act became law, in the future.