Bill Dedman: Long Island Divided

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03 Jun

Bill Dedman: Long Island Divided

Bill Dedman: Long Island Divided

Thursday, June 3, 2021 (3:00 PM to 4:00 PM)

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GHAR is excited to host national speaker, Pulitzer and Peabody award-winning investigative reporter, Bill Dedman! He has spoken on fair housing and fair lending issues to NAR, the Federal Reserve, HUD and banking and real estate associations.

Bill was one of four lead reporters on Newsday's undercover investigation of racial steering by real estate agents, Long Island Divided. The investigation, published in November 2019, revealed that Long Island's dominant residential real estate brokerages help reinforce racial segregation through illegal steering of customers. Newsday's team received several national awards for their work, including a Peabody Award. Long Island Divided and it's 40-minute documentary film, Testing the Divide:  http://newsday.com/divided.

Bill will be discussing how the tests of real estate agents were conducted, the major findings, and what agents can do to ensure fair treatment of consumers.

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