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.
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.
Not exact matches
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 privilege
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 privilege
in which they are intention ally sequestered so that they can not contaminate the lives and education of the privileged.
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 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.
Van Cleef Realty (VCR) was alleged to have engaged
in racial steering by two black clients seeking a rental unit.
The court recognized that it's
in the best interest of salespeople and brokers not to disclose information about a neighborhood's
racial composition
in order to avoid fair housing claims of unlawful
steering.
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.