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A Black woman selling her East Liberty home made an experiment of her appraisals before leaving Pittsburgh. At one appraisal, she presented the house with signs of Black ownership. For the second, she wiped signs of Black ownership and replaced them with suggestions of white ownership.
The second appraisal, conducted three days after the first, was $36,000 higher.
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The complaint process could eventually shed local light on bias in our local appraisal industry, also a national issue. Without PublicSource’s initial reporting ([link removed]) , it’s unlikely the woman who filed the complaint, or the federal housing department, would have known about the disparate appraisals.
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