Tenisha Tate-Austin and Paul Austin settled their lawsuit with a real estate company that had estimated their Northern California home at nearly $500,000 less than when a white friend pretended to be the owner.
"They told the lender that they didn't agree with the appraisal because there were a lot of things in the appraisal that they felt were incorrect or inappropriate. And they also felt that the appraisal came in low because of their race," Howard-Gibbon said.This time the couple decided to"white wash" the house. They removed family photos and art work, books, hair products and anything else that might indicate that a Black family lived there.
The lawsuit alleged that"[r]ace was a motivating factor in Miller's unreasonably low valuation of the Austins' house." But since there's such little turnover in Marin City, Howard-Gibbon argues that Miller should have expanded her survey to neighboring Sausalito and Mill Valley — communities that have homes that are more similar to the Austins' newly remodeled property, are predominantly white and have much higher home values.
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