Black Family Sued Real Estate Companies After Being Denied Loan For Investment Property. Judge Rules They Aren’t Protected By Fair Housing Act

By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated March 6, 2024

Last Wednesday, the racial discrimination lawsuit filed by three Black real estate investors in Texas was dismissed “without the option to refile.”

“The decision hinged less on whether the family had been discriminated against than whether the Fair Housing Act, which prohibits discriminating in the ‘sale or rental of a dwelling,’ had been violated,” the Houston Chronicle reports.

In 2022, James Ra-Amari and his wife Misty

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