apr 1, 1980 - Housing Discrimination

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-Puerto Ricans were able to see that “real estate agencies and private owners of buildings refuse to rent houses or apartments to Spanish speaking families.”
-Landlords often discriminated based on skin color, something that families of varying skin tones quickly discovered.
-Gender certainly informed such racial determinations, as landlords objected most vociferously to darkskinned men.

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