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Cities all across the nation still suffer from historical practices of redlining, racial steering and race restrictive covenants.

Housing discrimination in Long Beach

The resulting investigation exposed widespread discriminatory real estate practices in the Connecticut capital, practices that frequently subjected black clients to racial steering and "tactics that effectively barred them from even seeing the inside of a house" (p.

Undercover reporting: the truth about deception

This will make university administrators more sensitive to the rights of Jewish students." He argued that, "until this case, there had been no precedent establishing that Jewish students have rights against racial steering in higher education.

Education Dept. Drops Columbia Probe

Even worse, the phrase "good schools" strikes many as a form of racial steering, according to Neil Garfinkel, a real estate attorney affiliated with REBNY.

Brokers getting schooled on touchy marketing

The Toussies are also defendants in a lawsuit filed in New York federal court on behalf of more than 400 minority homebuyers who allege a conspiracy involving racial steering, racketeering and fraud.

Bush changes mind, pulls back pardon order for Brooklyn 'scam-tainted' developer

Britain, with its redlining, racial steering, and increasingly racialized public housing system should serve as a good case in point.

The transnational contexts of early twentieth-century American urban segregation

But racial steering, a form of housing discrimination in which minority homebuyers are shown houses in neighborhoods less desirable than those shown to comparable whites, can prevent even middle class African Americans from purchasing property.

Not this house! Fighting racial steering. (Buying Power)

In a case with allegations of racial steering, a federal district judge rejected evidence from testers, as well as testimony from expert witnesses, on the basis that testing protocols were flawed and lacked reliability.

Alleged racial steering case dismissed

Also, there may be racial steering of potential black homeowners away from these areas.

THE DECISION TO OWN

For instance, in the 1940s, realtors adopted a policy of not selling to someone whose race would cause property values to fall.(218) To further profit from segregation, realtors used methods such as blockbusting (selling to a black person then frightening whites with tales of a black invasion),(219) and racial steering (steering blacks to black neighborhoods and whites to white neighborhoods).(220)

Unamerican tail: of segregation and multicultural education

In 1989, Urban Institute researchers found that racial steering and other forms of disparate treatment continued to block opportunities for approximately half of all black and Hispanic home seekers nationwide, whether they were potential home buyers or renters.

THE INDELIBLE COLOR LINE

Most recently, in 1973, we four Post reporters, two males and two females, were assigned to pose as prospective home buyers to look for racial steering practices at 14 real-estate companies in the St.