Not that logic enters into this as they are clearly subverted. But why does removing crime data for buyers help make housing "fair"? If the issue is that minorities can't buy houses.
The concepts of redlining, reverse redlining, and disparate impact has gotten the real estate industry in hot water. The government knows whites hate living near blacks and always have been. So any information that might indicate neighborhood undesirability to whites related to minorities in neighborhoods sends alarm bells to government regulators & they use existing credit laws to clamp down.
Not that logic enters into this as they are clearly subverted. But why does removing crime data for buyers help make housing "fair"? If the issue is that minorities can't buy houses.
The concepts of redlining, reverse redlining, and disparate impact has gotten the real estate industry in hot water. The government knows whites hate living near blacks and always have been. So any information that might indicate neighborhood undesirability to whites related to minorities in neighborhoods sends alarm bells to government regulators & they use existing credit laws to clamp down.