Current Events > Investigation finds widespread discrimination against minority homebuyers on LI

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https://projects.newsday.com/long-island/real-estate-agents-investigation/

In one of the most concentrated investigations of discrimination by real estate agents in the half century since enactment of Americas landmark fair housing law, Newsday found evidence of widespread separate and unequal treatment of minority potential homebuyers and minority communities on Long Island.

The three-year probe strongly indicates that house hunting in one of the nations most segregated suburbs poses substantial risks of discrimination, with black buyers chancing disadvantages almost half the time they enlist brokers.

Additionally, the investigation reveals that Long Islands dominant residential brokering firms help solidify racial separations. They frequently directed white customers toward areas with the highest white representations and minority buyers to more integrated neighborhoods.

They also avoided business in communities with overwhelmingly minority populations.

The findings are the product of a paired-testing effort comparable on a local scale to once-a-decade testing performed by the federal government in measuring the extent of racial discrimination in housing nationwide.

Regularly endorsed by federal and state courts, paired testing is recognized as the sole viable method for detecting violations of fair housing laws by agents.

Two undercover testers for example, one black and one white separately solicit an agents assistance in buying houses. They present similar financial profiles and request identical terms for houses in the same areas. The agents actions are then reviewed for evidence that the agent provided disparate service.

Newsday conducted 86 matching tests in areas stretching from the New York City line to the Hamptons and from Long Island Sound to the South Shore. Thirty-nine of the tests paired black and white testers, 31 matched Hispanic and white testers and 16 linked Asian and white testers.
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In fully 40 percent of the tests, evidence suggested that brokers subjected minority testers to disparate treatment when compared with white testers with inequalities rising to almost half the time for black potential buyers.

Black testers experienced disparate treatment 49 percent of the time compared with 39 percent for Hispanic and 19 percent for Asian testers.

In seven of Newsdays tests 8 percent of the total agents accommodated white testers while imposing more stringent conditions on minorities that amounted to the denial of equal service between testers.

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I'm shocked

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This is known to generations of Black people, but evidence has never been good enough to change the rhetoric and open the minds of certain types of people.

The same feeling that makes these types not want Black people in their neighborhoods is what fuels this type of shit
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MajinPooh posted...

This is known to generations of Black people, but evidence has never been good enough to change the rhetoric and open the minds of certain types of people.

The same feeling that makes these types not want Black people in their neighborhoods is what fuels this type of shit

This still wont be enough for the usual suspects.
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This study was coauthored by the University of No Duh
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Bumpo

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And it's happening everywhere.
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New York real estate is the worst kind of real estate

i literally develop real estate tech for a living and NY is the absolute worst

King Rial posted...

And it's happening everywhere.

yup a lot of ignorant liberals
love to pretend shit like this doesn't happen in places like NY

black people have been saying over and over again this shit is literally everywhere
stealing this topic and posting it on the politics board

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