Amanda Gomez submitted hundreds of rental applications for an apartment in Harlem, New York, last year. Most were met with silence. Fifteen, however, were outright rejected. When she subsequently noticed the same apartments relisted five or six times, Gomez suspected racial discrimination.
In 2024, housing discrimination complaints filed with the federal government totalled 32,321, marking one of the highest totals in the past two decades, according to the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA), a non-profit fair housing advocacy organization. But even as these complaints were climbing nationwide, the people in charge of evaluating them were…
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