In 1989, I participated in a study conducted by the Fair Housing Commision in Chicago. The purpose of the study was to determine the role of racism in the real estate industry. In the study, identical fictionalized backgrounds were made up for two people, one white and one black. (Salary, marital status, type of employment, number of kids, etc.) Both people would express interest in apartments, condominiums and houses that had been advertised in local papers. As you can probably guess, the results were lopsided. The black applicants routinely experienced brush-offs, were told the unit had already been rented or the …
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