Judy Woodruff:

It's been 10 years since the economic recession, and credit has slowly returned for most Americans.

By 2016, the number of conventional mortgages had risen 95 percent since the housing bust. And yet some Americans are still being left behind. The gap between white and black homeownership is wider now than it was in 1960.

Tonight, the first of a two-part series, results of a yearlong investigation from Reveal, a program produced by the Center for Investigative Reporting.

As Reveal's Aaron Glantz reports, black and Latino homebuyers in some cities seem to have a harder time getting a home mortgage.