My words cannot express the gratitude I feel. I very much deeply appreciate everyone involved with this documentary. The level of investigative journalism is top notch. I am a lifelong learner and try my hardest to understand the how's and the why's in the world and you all make it that much easier to continue my research. Thank you.

As someone who moved here out of state, Long Island needs to do better. I’m in the process of becoming a Gen Z realtor. This definitely motivated me. Hopefully I can make a change.

My dad made $150k a year in 2003 and had a PhD. In engineering and somehow all the listings he saw at the time were in Hempstead, Brentwood, freeport etc despite being overqualified for most Long Island homes. He was moving to NY from Maryland at the time.

This happened to me in 1987 when my husband and I purchased a house in Central Islip. As the agent whose office was located in East Islip, I told her that I liked the houses on that area. She said no I’m going to take you to a neighborhood that is more “integrated”. We purchased a brand new house for $129,999 in Central Islip. I had no idea that I was being “steered” to a Hispanic and black neighborhood. My neighbors are great but our house is valued much less than the houses in East Islip, Islip, Hauppauge and Smithtown. So years later, I realized that we could have purchased a house in East Islip for the same amount as I did in Central Islip. I still own my house in Central Islip but if I were to sell I would first file a lawsuit for racial discrimination for “steering”.

As a Hispanic person that was born and raised on Long Island (Hicksville)…I can attest to the racism and discrimination over there…..I’m a Florida resident of 2 short weeks now, and I couldn’t be any happier with my decision….I will ONLY go back to visit family…it really sucks that there are places like LI that exist

I'm not surprised. The government should enforce the shit out of the Fair Housing Act! Put more money into these investigations

Unfortunately, this happens all over the country. All the realtors found to be steering should have their licenses removed.

Wow. I appreciate everyone that was involved. I will share with other agents to help spread the awareness ❤️

Redline under the table

If your a Realtor ftom long island read this: you will continue to get testers so my advice to you is if you are racist get out of the business. Realtors have to have high integrity...if you dont have any you dont deserve a license.

nice very good information

I love the whataboutisms and how people CHOOSE to be in denial about these disgusting, discriminatory, and unethical practices. 😊 These agents are trash and every one of them engaging in this behavior should no doubt lose their license.

As an agent I am not only embarrassed of our Long Island but they need to hold them all accountable. ITs really sad that this happens

Black renters go through the same difficulties renting a place to live

They’re supposed to loose their license the same way that they robbed people of their opportunities

When we moved to Denver earlier this year, I as a latino man, spent several months shopping and contacting - and got very disturbing results... often not even getting a reply from an email, I asked my partner who happens to be caucasian, with a very white last name, to use his email, I reached out with the exact same content just with his name... we found a great house. I hate that it had to happen this way. how many don't have the privilage of a partner or friend moving with them.

These are issues that haven’t been properly addressed ever and that’s why way too many white and conservative long islanders are terribly ignorant about race and class

I love this. Expose them all.

This is what the REALTOR association SHOULD be doing, vetting and rating every agent for equal treatment. I tell you one thing - I hope Frederick Wallenmaier gets RICH from treating his clients the same! and KEvin Geddie goes POOR

Had the pre-qualification letter 10 years ago in May 2014 and made the trip to Albany, NY from Atlanta to meet with who I hoped was a well-vetted female agent. Made the trip for nothing after all because she cancelled out on me claiming she needed an 'updated' letter despite the bank letter being less than 30 days old. Really had high hopes and less than 4 years later her realty company got bought out by another company. Ended up going with another route but I experienced same phenomena as around the 3:00 mark.

As realtor, that guy said “ mini UN nation “ 🤦🏻‍♂️

The law enforcement agencies need to prosecute such discriminatory activities. The evidence is clear. Upon conviction fine the living xxxx out of them. The blatant, disgusting hypocrisy inherent in the various "apologies" or "explanations" or however you choose to characterize the behaviors of these real-estate agents as well as their employers is shameful at best. To me, its blatantly obvious to anyone who viewed this video that prejudice is alive and well in the USA. The only difference is that in today's world, versus previous generations, such people are sneaks because they know or should know that not only is it ethically and morally wrong, its illegal.

With the two older ladies with the Pre approval letters. The agent was supposed to tell the lady to get Pre approved as well but that just shows how racist she is, went “Out her way” to show her TWO houses smh

Excellent journalism!

What blew my mind was a few of the discriminating agents weren't even white/non-hispanic. Reminds me of the Indian dude from Chippendales getting sued for denying blacks when he was a dark-skinned immigrant. Needless to say, whenever he thought his success would take him to the next level, a good ol' MAGA'er was there to remind him of "his place".

Move out of Long Island, the real estate is old, the people are old and the taxes are high.

It's fucked up, the only color that should have mattered was green. I do think that in the age of Zillow this is probably less of an issue. The last two homes I purchased I found on Zillow, the real estate agent did not help me find the homes.

They should investigate Seminole County, Orange County, Osceola County Agents from Coldwell Banker, Remax, and many of them have Caucasian and Hispanic Agents who discriminate against Afro-American Natives that have 8 generations in the State of Florida are racial steering, lying about homes that have contracts when they don't and providing down payment assistance programs to whites but not black Americans. They only work hard to get only white and Hispanic buyers' interest over Afro-Americans of descent families with professional lives like everyone else.

This has probably been going on for half a century.

fair housing act was signed in 1968 act this bullsh!t is still happening. "laws are nothing but words on paper until you get caught breaking them". Baltimore got called out for these practices as well.

Buy anywhere on long island. There is limited space on Long Island soon this place will be for the well off!

I moved to long Island from the West coast and realized how North East is so much more racist.

one thing I've learned if you want to live somewhere and are concerned with whether the schools are any good, what the crime statistics are there, etc, you can't depend on your real estate agent to provide you that information because they can't. And if ethnic/racial makeups of neighborhoods have no impact on home values why (10-15 years ago) when I was a real estate agent was that always one of the first questions potential buyers asked me "what kind of people live around here?" "are the schools around here any good?" "what are the crime rates in this neighborhood." I had to get good real quick at providing BS answers that wouldn't get me in trouble with the licensing agency.. but buyers always wanted to know those things. Always.

The real estate agents did a good job. If you let anyone move into the community, they will run it down slowly but surely.

“Unless u wanna start your car to buy crack” yea Boys she’s gone

Well my Agent kept it 💯

John oliver reference

The question is what is being done about all this routine racism?

If you want to fix the alleged problem, consolidate all the Long Island school districts into one school district and give families school vouchers so they can choose which schools the children will attend. When families have a free choice of schools that removes all discrimination. One unified school district and free choice is the answer then their will not be a perception of discrimination. When schools must compete for students the quality of education improves for everyone!!!

Sickening smh

At least the south their racist to your face, the north they act like their not

But when you say institutional racism they say its not a thing .

Huge issue and all the realtors that discriminated needs investigated and charged

Anyone here trynna finish their sociology homework?

You can make another doc of this for Atlanta,, Right?

I grew up down the street from Wyandanch, died when that lady talked about it

I am paying good money to live in a safe neighborhood SO WHAT'S WRONG WITH THAT ?

N this is pretty much the agent worried bout someone else life n got nothin else to do

It's a law of numbers the agent knows predominantly minorities have harder time getting a loan bc of low credit income etc.. probably got screwed many times.. the agent should ask the same to both customers to be qualified

Elmont is not nice woman lol knock it off it’s hood all the way hood

There goes the ....

I think this is an excellent study and video. I do have a serious, honest question, however. There are many groups who WANT to remain in homogenous communities and I don't think there is anything wrong with it. For example Orthodox Jews want to remain within walking distances to synagogues. Latinos seem to like being near each other, particularly when many of them don't speak English well and want and need the support each other's families can provide. Other groups may feel the same way. The Amish, for example. Why is it WRONG to keep communities homogenous if that is what they want -- not for discriminatory purposes, but simply for a quality of life style that is important to them? I agree that if someone from a different group wants to move in, they should be encouraged to do so and that is fine, but what would be wrong with steering families from those particular groups into neighborhoods where they know they will feel be able to meet their particular needs? It's like the government has completely taken over everyone's lifestyles and tells them how to live and how they can't live. Neighborhoods can be homogenous without being racist or hateful. Does the law recognize this and accommodate it? In the past in this country we used to have italian neighborhoods, puerto rican neighborhoods, Jewish neighborhoods, irish catholic neighborhoods, black neighborhoods, etc. Some (perhaps much) of this was forced and that was definitely not good so to that extent I respect and believe in the fair housing laws. But some was not. Some was and is by choice. Just like people choose who they want to marrry, who they want to spend time hanging out with as friends, what careers they want to pursue, and a host of other choices, why shouldn't people be permitted to choose into what type of neighborhood they want to live? As long as newcomers aren't excluded from moving into neighborhoods (which was and I think, remains, the purpose of fair housing laws), why is it wrong to steer people INTO neighborhoods if they want to live in a place where a particular characteristic is dominant? It seems to me that the way these laws are written and enforced has terrible unintended consequences and lowers the cultural appeal and happiness of many Americans.

What happen to the agents?

I just want to know if they tested minority realtors and see the if they get similar results

The first one in is northern Westchester not LI

I agree this is crazy! But, and I'm not being coy, has the same test been done when the agent is a member of a minority? It would be part of the picture, right? Just curious...

This is not new. Long Island is hard core racist when it comes to housing. So glad to see major real estates companies SUED!!! 2023!

And to think I was gonna to buy a house out there smh glad I didnt...long island is racist asf

School districts is the new tag line for race

Racism is certainly an issue in our great land, It always was, have any of you out there given back your properties to the Native American Indians who flourished here before the great scourge of Immigrants. I think that would be a great story for Newsday. Funny how this is never mentioned. My opinions are my own and do not reflect on the agency I work for. Thank You.

NEWSDAY❤: WHY Aren't YOU SHOWING SENIOR PROBLEMS, DID YOU SEE SENIOR ABUSE VIDEOS ON UTUBE,?? ❤ THERES HUNDREDS OF RACIST BUT HARDLY ANY HELP FOR SENIORS.

Hofstra Students :D

It's now based on lineage and not race

Matthew 12:34 - O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

Who wants to live near an opposite race?

Why are Black people so angry? Why do they have such a chip on their shoulders? You can do whatever you want in Amerika with hard work. Amerika. Is. Not. A. Racist. Country. This will never be the country it can be because white folk are white folk. Take a bow Amerika you never fail to disappoint.

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I'm opposed to racist prejudice and placing people in different communities based on race, but people like me who lived in a poor area in Queens where there was crimes, gang violence, and not great education opportunities there and it was filled with Hispanics and some black people. Me and my family were lucky enough to move out of there and live in a nice suburban area in long island. Me and my family are hispanics and we don't really want to live in a Hispanic or black community because there cultures aren't really great when it comes to traditions, parenting, teaching there kids to be responsible and to work hard to achieve there dreams. Now compare to white and asian communities where there cultures teach responsibility, hard work, taking care of oneself and there family. So I want to find out if these realtors are doing this just so they can keep these nice neighborhoods nice, safe and the best or are they doing stuff like this because they're prejudice. If you want to see a neighborhood that use to be a nice neighborhood until certain group of people moved in and ruined the neighborhood look at rossdale. In the 70s it was filled with white people and the neighborhood looked nice, clean, and safe. Now rosedale looks so different today.

Agents usually want to see a pre approval before getting into the car to see houses,there lucky they got the time of day

This is not racist . There is no hate. But prejudice and stereotypes are driving this. Very interesting how something I never thought of, is a real large part of the segregation of our society. Think about why we all see the way we do.

Humans self-segregate and don't want to live in nasty neighborhoods. These agents are a reflection of the wants of the population, not the other way around.

These agents are telling the clients the truth, it is what it is. What should they do, lie, and tell, the clients the schools are are great, when there not? Freedom of speech, not discrimination. If people are paying property taxed over 20K, they deserve to know where they are moving into. Im a former Long Islander myself from Brentwood, I moved to South Western PA; thank God I left!