They disproportionately move to LGBT tolerant places, which tend to be expensive metro areas or blue states where real estate is expensive.

You don’t get an inheritance if your family abandoned you….

While there's a lot of fine print reasons, I'd imagine it all goes back to 1 thing. Bigotry.

A lot of gay people are kicked out of their homes as children, because they are gay.
A lot of straight people get help from their parents that allows them to purchase their first home.

These are likely connected to that 5% ~~difference.~~.

Also, what's the cost to medically transition in the states? I bet that also prevents you from being able to get a down-payment together, even if you don't face workplace issues stemming from you being true to yourself.

In addition to being disinherited, discrimination, moving to more expensive bluer areas that are more tolerant, and such that people have already touched on, and I'm sure are significant factors at play, I just kind of want to spitball a couple thoughts. I'm no sociologist or economist or anything of the sort so I don't know how much these thoughts hold water

The sort of stereotypical American dream- husband & wife, 2.5 kids, 2 cars, house in the suburbs, etc. probably looks at least a little different for many LGBTQ people. In many cases, the kids are kind of a non-starter- adoption, IVF, surrogacy, etc. are out of reach for a lot of people for a few different reasons, and if you're not planning around having kids, you may not need that house in the suburbs with a good school district and a yard for them to play in. And if you're not spending money on kids, you may want to spend that money elsewhere, it may be more important to you to be close to other things, or to not have a mortgage hanging over you're head and want to be able to move to a different neighborhood, city, state, or maybe even country every few years when your lease is up.

I'm a fairly stereotypical straight dude, I grew up holding the flashlight for my dad and getting yelled at while he fixed pretty much everything around the house himself, and it gave me a pretty solid foundation as a handyman. There's not much around a house that I'm not confident I could fix myself or with a couple buddies if I needed to, and I suspect that a lot of girls and probably many gay guys have a different experience with that kind of thing in their childhoods. Not that they can't learn those skills on their own later on in life if they want/need to, but it can be a pretty daunting prospect, and I could see a lot of people who didn't grow up learning those skills choosing to live in an apartment or rental house where they can just call maintenance or their landlord when something breaks instead of needing to learn a bunch of plumbing, electrical, carpentry, drywall, etc on the fly as your house is falling apart around you. I'm not sure I'd want to take on home ownership if I had to start from square one and relearn everything I picked up from my dad on my own.

Here's a link to the actual study:

https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/2024-02/Why_Are_There_Gaps_in_LGBTQ%2B_Homeownership.pdf

Unfortunately the link was broken in the article and the article itself didn't have a lot of detail. I think this led to most of the comments here as saying "oh this is just because such and such factor" which yes of course everything people are saying are all factors and they're specifically listed as factors in the report. But the gap still remained when controlling for those factors too, including lgbt people living in more expensive areas (and even with that, the reason they're in more expensive areas is because those areas have more tolerant policies, also nicely laid out in the report).

I'd be interested if they took samples of home ownership across LGBTQ+ and cis populations in geographies with high acceptance of LGBTQ+ populations. Do we see parity in this case? Could it be that geographies that contain accepting societies all have low home ownership?

As in, could places where higher home ownership exist not overlap with LGBTQ+ acceptance?

Uhh... Am I the only one who says "because LGBTQ persons make up like 10% of the population?" I'm pretty sure the headline left out a "proportionally" somewhere but... Hmmm.