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What would the Biden administration's new plan do to fight racial bias in home appraisals?

by Savannah Maher

Mar 24, 2022

The plan offers a number of steps to improve oversight of the home appraisal industry, and train appraisers.

Though the Fair Housing Act requires appraisers not to discriminate based on race, there are still big discrepancies between the value of homes owned by white versus Black or Latinx households.

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