LI agents routinely discriminate against minority buyers, undercover probe finds

A three-year undercover investigation by Newsday found 40 percent of Long Island brokers routinely discriminate against minority buyers. Black testers experienced unfair treatment 49 percent of the time, Latinos 39 percent and Asians 19 percent. Black buyers were on average shown the fewest of an agent’s listings in majority-white neighborhoods, Newsday found. The bombshell probe also found that minorities had to meet more stringent financial qualifications than white buyers. In seven cases, minority buyers without

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