Black men looking to rent apartments in some parts of Alameda County often receive less favorable treatment than white men with the same financial profile, according to a a fair-housing advocacy group.
The Eden Council for Hope and Opportunity said that black men were discriminated against 26 percent of the time over the course of a seven-month investigation when they tried to rent the same apartments as white men with similar backgrounds.
The group sent four men -- two white, two black -- posing as prospective tenants to 53 different apartments in Hayward, Livermore, Pleasanton and Union City.
The black men were less likely to receive follow-up calls and more likely to encounter longer waits to view property than their white counterparts, the group said.
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