A new report assessing the state of Greater Boston’s housing market finds that the region is making little progress in changing the region’s long-standing trends in racial segregation.

The 2019 Greater Boston Housing Report Card, produced by the Boston Foundation, the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University, the Massachusetts Housing Partnership’s Center for Housing Data and the University of Massachusetts Donahue Institute, was released this morning.

“Despite well-intentioned and long-continuing efforts to improve housing affordability and equity across the region, it’s not an earth-shattering surprise that Greater Boston has a great deal left to do when it comes to addressing the legacy of social and economic segregation,” Paul S. Grogan, president and CEO of the Boston Foundation, said in a statement. “What may be surprising is the level to which overt redlining tactics designed to keep racial and ethnic minorities out of some areas has been replaced by economic, social and zoning barriers which still make housing diversity difficult, impracticable or impossible in many communities.”

While Asian Americans have been able to access more housing in Boston’s suburbs than either Latino Americans or African Americans, the report found “persistently high” levels of racial segregation in the Boston area. More than 70 percent of the region’s Latino households and 66 percent of black households resided in just 10 municipalities in 2017, the report found.

Bay Staters of color have for decades been locked out of homeownership opportunities by racist “redlining” policies pushed by the federal government, homebuilders and mortgage lenders. Research widely supports that racially segregated regions limit educational opportunities for children of color and limit the opportunities for adults of color to improve their economic status. In part due to access to homeownership and the generational wealth it can create, the median net worth of a Greater Boston African-American family is $8, compared to $24,000 for an area white family, according to a landmark Boston Globe investigation in 2017.

Where communities became more racially diverse, researchers found a correlation between increases in multifamily housing permits, but they found insufficient data to establish a strong link.

“Many other factors affect racial segregation as individuals choose where to live for a variety of reasons. It stands to reason that limiting the number and type of housing units serves to constrain the ability of individuals to reside in certain places; nevertheless, it’s likely that housing production is correlated with other community characteristics that serve to make a place less segregated,” the report stated.

The report also noted that Greater Boston is not on track to produce enough housing for either the region’s expected population growth or self-imposed goals set by municipal leaders.

The Boston area is expected to grow by almost 20 percent between 2010 and 2025, to 1.83 million households, with much of the growth concentrated in Suffolk, Middlesex and Essex counties, creating a need for 320,000 new housing units. The state is currently on a path to beat Gov. Charlie Baker’s stated goal of producing 135,000 new units by 2030, but it is not meeting the 12,333 units per year goal set by the Metropolitan Mayor’s Coalition, which would create 185,000 new units in the same time frame.

The report echoes the Dain Report’s review of multifamily zoning throughout Greater Boston, finding that while progress has been made many restrictions – which report author Amy Dain termed a “paper wall” – prevent significant new multifamily building. More than half of the new multifamily housing permitted in Massachusetts from 2013 to 2017 was in just four communities: Boston, Cambridge, Everett and Watertown, the report found.