Coronavirus, racial tensions and climate disasters have combined to worsen already deep housing inequalities, with far more Black and Hispanic Americans falling behind in rents and mortgages than their white counterparts, a key report said on Thursday.The COVID-19 pandemic put people out of work, racial unrest exposed inequity and extreme weather linked to global warming is worsening, said the study by Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS).More Black and Hispanic workers than white workers have lost their jobs, creating a growing inability to make their housing payments and exacerbating an already severely unequal system, it said."The big picture takeaway is that the pandemic really amplified the existing housing.