Inequality In The Housing Industry: A Case Study

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Introduction
Inequality based on race continues to affect the housing sector in the UK, states a new publication from the Human City Institute and BME National. Based on its author, Kevin Gulliver, since the implementation of the Race Relations Act in 1976 things have improved, but BME (black minorities ethnicities) continue to be discriminated when it comes to their accommodation. This bias approach through the allocation of properties to the BME results with them occupying the most impoverished and overpopulated neighbourhoods in the country. In addition to this, BME have been found to be twice as poorer than Whites, based on the information retrieved for the reporting.
In the light of this recent publication, this paper seeks to investigate,

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