HUD Claims

[gregb]

Per the MBREA Association for Valuation Professionals who filed a FOI claim:

Last October, the MBREA submitted a Freedom of Information request to HUD. The request sought the following information pertaining to the complaints filed against real estate appraisers for either Fair Housing violations and/or appraisal discrimination between January 1, 2020 to October 22, 2023.

• Number of complaints received during each calendar year of 2020, 2021, 2022, and year to date 2023.
• Number of complaints dismissed.
• Number of complaints settled.
• Number of complaints awaiting disposition.

We recently received a reply from HUD that showed that for 2020, 2021, 2022, and through October 2023, a total of 220 complaints were received. The status of the complaints is reflected in the below chart.

 

[John Hassler]

As someone who has managed thousands of complaints against appraisers, it is striking that HUD has such a high percentage of open cases. Especially since these are mostly likely cases involving non-complex properties (i.e., not garbage dumps, swamp lands, major redevelopment projects, etc.).

These types of cases should be resolved within a year unless they are calendared for a hearing, or mis-managed.

 

[George Hatch]

<100 a year doesn't speak to some massive number of allegations being made against a population of 60,000.

 

[Mejappz]

Get ready for another hit piece airing tomorrow.

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[Dublin ohio]

Get ready for another hit piece airing tomorrow.

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I give VACAP credit for trying. But the odds of the MSM presenting both sides equally will probably be slim to none and slim has left the building. I know I will be chastised for saying this. But only someone like FOX new would have the stones to do it.

 

[Meandering]

Get ready for another hit piece airing tomorrow.

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https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4479376-denver-communities-of-color-bear-the-brunt-of-citys-air-pollution-study/

Denver communities of color bear the brunt of city’s air pollution: Study​

Communities of color in the Denver metropolitan area are exposed to higher levels of air pollution than non-Hispanic white residents, a new study has found.

The disparity in environmental conditions is due to historic tendencies for these populations to reside in both historically redlined neighbors and near highways, according to the study, published on Wednesday in Environmental Science and Technology.

The communities experiencing the most adverse impacts are residents of Hispanic/Latino and American Indian and Alaska Native heritage, the research determined.

“We just focused on Denver and redlining practices that took place in the 1930s and 1940s,” the study’s lead author Alex Bradley, a chemistry graduate student at the University of Colorado Boulder, said in a statement.

“Every city has a story of why people live where they do, and that affects who is affected most by pollution,” Bradley added.

The practice of “redlining” stems from a New Deal-era policy that led to the establishment of several government programs aimed at broadening homeownership through mortgages and loans, the authors noted.

As part of these programs, however, neighborhoods with primarily Black or immigrant populations often received a “hazardous” rating for repayment — leading to the redlining practice that limits lending.

These discriminatory policies became common when entities such as the Federal Housing Administration and the Home Owner’s Loan Corporation started assigning the ratings in question. To do so, they ranked neighborhoods from “A,” the least risky, to “D,” the riskiest areas that were color-coded in red.

Although research has increasingly shown that historically redlined areas endure higher levels of air pollution than those that received better ratings, the University of Colorado team aimed to explore the roots of these differences in Denver.

“Denver has some known, large sources of air pollution that are outside the city boundaries, like agriculture, oil and gas production, and wildfires,” said corresponding author Joost de Gouw, a CU Boulder professor of chemistry, in a statement.

much more from the link above.

 

[Flakey]

So, redlining causes air pollution?

 

[Tom D]

i live in a previous big city industrial section. originally a lot of polish immigrants were brought in for cheap labor. i remember long ago driving by and smelling the sulfur from the chem factories. i never thought that the racist wind wouldn't blow it to the next nice neighborhood. the race hustlers need to find the next i am so guilty white liberals willing to give them their money.

 

[Meandering]

Well, if "warming" is global, and the air doesn't move out of some neighborhoods...........

And can an appraiser find that "location" adjustment for the bad air that the GOVERNMENT says is there and not moving around?

 

[Meandering]

That's something for appraisers to deeply consider. The government has declared some neighborhoods predominated by certain ethnic groups, as being not as clean or healthy, as other neighborhoods dominated by different ethnic groups.