Aurea Diaz and Adrian Maldonado recently bought their first home in the city’s Back of the Yards neighborhood. The Gonzalez family just became first-time homeowners, too, after looking beyond the city’s Northwest Side to the near western suburbs.
These Latino home buyers aren’t just first-timers. They are first-in-their-generation purchasers motivated to take the plunge, despite headwinds like high mortgage rates and low supply that have made other buyers skittish.
