Since much likeness has been found to exist between the respondents’ ideologies and those of the institution as represented by NAREB and the Chicago Board, I shall now present data that point to an ...ideological influence flowing from NAREB and the local board to the present and prospective practitioners of the real estate institution. My sources of evidence are the early history of NAREB and the rise of its Code of Ethics, acts that indicated real estate boards’ approval of and insistence upon racial residential segregation, lines of communication used by NAREB and the Chicago Board to reach real estate
Negroes generally have put much of the blame for discrimination in housing on the white real estate man because he channels the property in white neighborhoods to the buyer or renter. He is also ...accused of influencing white people against living with Negroes and thus of promoting racial residential segregation. Others, too, are blamed, but he is presented as the chief villain.
More objective observers who have written about the problem of discrimination in housing for minority groups, and particularly for the Negro group, have also treated the real estate man as a culprit and condemned him without giving him
Statistical tests revealed it highly improbable that the relation between the exclusion ideology and the practice of exclusion has arisen from chance,¹ and it seems reasonable to conclude that there ...is a relation of dependence between the two. The first eight of the ten components discussed in Chapters IV and V were selected as the racial real estate ideology proper because these eight express the broker’s own convictions about what is right racial policy for the world around him. It was then decided that if five out of the eight were unfavorable to Negroes, a respondent’s ideology would be considered
