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Homes in Black and Latino neighborhoods still undervalued 50 years after US banned using race in real estate appraisals

  • Written by Junia Howell, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh
imageReal estate prices are still related to a neighborhood's racial composition, despite laws prohibiting the explicit consideration of race in appraisals. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

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