Equal Housing OpprortunityBlack New Orleans residents have seen injustice after injustice in their quests to rebuild their lives. First, you have a federal government that sat on its hands while people died in the streets. Then you have the promises to these people that they would be made whole all but ignored (oh, I forgot, there is some aid in the war supplemental bill that the President is going to veto but, the Republican talking head call such aid “pork”). Now, they are facing a new challenge: racial discrimination when trying to rent property.

The Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center sent in “testers” posing as potential renters and found that, in 57.5% of the time, the potential black renters were discriminated against. Of course, the landlords’ and real estate investors’ associations have no comment on all of this.

The Fair Housing action center has indicated that it does intend to sue several of these landlords.

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