From WBIR:
Nearly 40 years after a national law banned housing discrimination, an increasing number of complaints are alleging unfair treatment of minorities, the disabled, families and other groups.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development and housing assistance agencies logged 10,328 complaints last year, a 12 percent jump from 2005. That?s the highest number since HUD started keeping track in 1990, when it included complaints from the disabled and families with children.
Nealie Pitts still gets emotional when she recalls a white homeowner in Chesterfield, Va., telling her five years ago that the house she wanted to buy "will not be sold to coloreds."
In San Jose, Calif., Hispanic families complained their apartment manager spoke disparagingly of Mexicans and gave their repair requests lower priority.
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