Appraisals: A Missing Link in Fair Housing/Fair Lending Debates

While the appraisal industry has a long, sordid history of discrimination, and such bias still creeps into almost every step of the property assessment process today, it has been virtually invisible in recent fair housing and fair lending debates (See Bill Pittinger's 2013 paper "Managing the Appraisal Component of Fair Lending Compliance" from the ABA Bank Compliance Magazine ). And once again those families and communities that have long been and continue to be subject to discriminatory (and o...