housing discrimination

State Sen. Adam Gómez aims to exact stricter penalties on real estate professionals who engage in illegal discrimination and create measures to prevent it.

Although the federal Fair Housing Act was passed more than 50 years ago, housing discrimination continues. Racial steering, redlining and failures of lenders to finance homes are all among the more-frequently cited forms of illegal discrimination. But another type of bias is just as insidious: under-valued home appraisals.