One Long Island real estate agent told a black man that houses in a predominantly white neighborhood were too expensive for his budget. But the same agent showed houses in the same neighborhood to a white man with the same amount of money to spend. Another real estate agent warned a white homebuyer about gang violence in a mostly minority neighborhood, but she appeared to steer a black buyer with a comparable budget toward homes in that neighborhood. All told, real estate agents treated people of color unequally 40% of the time compared with white people when they searched for homes on Long Island, one of the most racially segregated suburbs in the United States. Those were among the findings of a three-year undercover investigation published this past weekend by Newsday, a Long Island newspaper, which exposed widespread evidence that discriminatory, and potentially illegal, home-selling practices are helping to keep the areas neighborhoods segregated.
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