Home Valuation Jumps By Nearly $300K After Black Couple Removes Family Photos and Asks White Friend to Sit In on Appraisal atlantablackstar.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from atlantablackstar.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
An Indianapolis woman has filed a complaint in conjunction with the Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana after her home valuation jumped by $100,000 when she removed Black identifiers from her home and had a white friend sit in for her during the appraisal.
“I get choked up even thinking about it now because I was so excited and so happy, and then I was so angry that I had to go through all of that just to be treated fairly,” Indianapolis homeowner Carlette Duffy told local station Fox29.
Duffy made the decision to refinance her home located in a Black neighborhood near downtown Indianapolis last year, and had plans to use the equity to purchase her grandparents’ home close by in order to fix it up and keep it in the family.