Sentences with phrase «racial steering»

The court held that landlords, a listing broker, and rental agents were liable for racial steering with respect to rental property.

The court noted that the couple in question, while experiencing a form of racial steering in the rental process, were not subjected to prolonged discrimination.

The country has come a long way over the past half - century when racial steering and disparate lending practices were common.

Van Cleef Realty (VCR) was alleged to have engaged in racial steering by two black clients seeking a rental unit.

Indeed, the court found that a real estate licensee could be liable for unlawful racial steering in violation of the federal Fair Housing Act if the licensee provided such information, since this type of information required a subjective decision by the licensee about what constituted racial or ethnic diversity.

A federal appeals court has ruled that a fair housing organization could recover damages for diverting its resources to fight discriminatory racial steering by a real estate company, even if a jury determined that the individual testers used by the organization were not discriminated against by the company's representatives.

In another case, this one from 1979, the village of Bellwood, Illinois, sued two Realtors for racial steering, and the Supreme Court let the suit go forward.

In the longer run, we need to battle zoning laws, racial steering, and the other practices that perpetuate residential segregation and consign the black and brown and poor to isolated neighborhoods in which they are intention ally sequestered so that they can not contaminate the lives and education of the privileged.

In addressing state fair housing violations, the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, affirmed the Division of Human Rights (DHR) finding of liability for racial steering, left the $ 10,000 punitive damages award intact, and remitted the case to DHR to reduce the compensatory award from $ 30,000 to no more than $ 5,000.

The law banned racial discrimination in the sale or rental of housing, block busting (in which real estate agents move a black family into a white neighborhood and use it to frighten white homeowners into selling, turning the neighborhood from white to black), racial steering (in which real estate agents steer home seekers to racially distinct neighborhoods), and intimidation and coercion.