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Can you link to the study? I find that extremely difficult to believe on face value, and I want to confirm that they actually controlled for the major variables instead of making some kind of extrapolation. Even in my relatively very high priced mostly white area area, a black family owning a house would _never_ appraise for $500K less unless it were almost literally a burnt, flooded out shell.

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Jon, I said that there should be a study, but there was no study that I am aware of. There was an individual case that was reported across the media. The same house was appraised for approximately $500,000 higher when a white person filled in as the owner, compared to what it was appraised for when the real Black owner was named as the owner.

https://abc7.com/black-homeowner-problems-sf-bay-area-housing-discrimination-minority-homeownership-anti-black-policy/10331076/

It's easy to look up things such as this is you go to google.com. Just go to google and type house appraised for $500,000 more with white owner than with Black owner. You will get many articles to choose from.

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