In 2012, a National Fair Housing Alliance survey of bank-owned properties in nine metro areas found that those buildings in predominantly white neighborhoods were more likely to be properly maintained by the bank while those homes in non-white parts of town were often being allowed to fall into disrepair, driving property values down for neighbors and causing public health and safety concerns. Since then, the NFHA has filed a federal discrimination complaint against the bank for what it alleges are violations of the Fair Housing Act.
The NFHA recently amended its complaint [PDF] to the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, by adding additional cities, along with photographic and diagrammatic evidence to bolster its case.
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5 comments:
This is a stupid article. Both set of homes show the "black" home to be neglected etc and the "white" home to appear to have someone living in it.
The pictures don't show squat.
God, I love this crap! It's so true !
Maybe the bank doesn't have any crews willing to go into those neighborhoods and spend the day...you ain't getting bum rushed and robbed of every dollar and tool and your truck, too, in most white neighborhoods. Try it in some of those "non-white" neighborhoods and you may not make it home tonight. Further, the banks have only a limited amount of money to maintain all the homes they so proudly took; it makes the best sense to put that money where the investment is more likey to offer a return. Facts and simple math.
We had a foreclosed property owned by a white dude, in a mixed neighborhood, on our block and no one took care of it. So we, the neighbors did. We mowed the lawn and picked up the trash. The bank did nothing and our complaints to neighborhood services only resulted in fines, which did nothing to change the appearance of the knee high grass. Sometimes if you don't want the neighborhood to look like a ghetto, you have to pitch in and help yourself. The banks do not care.
There are many in all neighborhoods that are in foreclosure, owners have walked away, and the BOA simply has not gotten around to or does not want to complete the foreclosure. If they do, then it's their responsibility to maintain.
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