: ‘You don’t need a man anymore’: More single women than single men own property.

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Single women own more homes in America than single men do.

Women have come a long way in real estate in the last few decades. Until the early 1970s, it was legal for banks to refuse a loan to an unmarried woman without a male co-signer.

Two pieces of legislation changed that: In 1968, the Fair Housing Act was passed, and in 1974, the Equal…