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☆ Black Couple Who Said an Appraisal of Their Home Was Biased Settle Lawsuit
  + stars: | 2024-03-25 | by ( Debra Kamin | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
A Black couple who claimed an appraisal company undervalued their Baltimore home based on their race have settled their lawsuit against their mortgage lender, loanDepot, which has agreed to a number of sweeping policy changes that could offer significant relief to homeowners who allege racially biased appraisals in the future. Dr. Connolly and Dr. Mott, both faculty members at Johns Hopkins University, sued loanDepot, a mortgage lender, as well as Shane Lanham, an appraiser hired by a contractor for the company, in August 2022. A year earlier, the couple had opened their home to Mr. Lanham, who is white, for an appraisal, and he put the value of their four-bedroom house in Baltimore’s Homeland neighborhood at $472,000. After the couple stripped their home of family photographs and had a white colleague pose as the homeowner, an action known as “whitewashing,” a second appraiser offered a value of $750,000. The couple said that the difference in value — nearly $300,000 higher — came because the second appraiser believed that the home’s owners were white.
Persons: Nathan Connolly, Shani Mott, . Connolly, Mott, loanDepot, Shane Lanham, Lanham, ” Organizations: Johns Hopkins University Locations: Baltimore
☆ Shani Mott, Black Studies Scholar Who Examined Power All Around Her, Dies at 47
  + stars: | 2024-03-24 | by ( Campbell Robertson | Debra Kamin | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Shani Mott, a scholar of Black studies at Johns Hopkins University whose examinations of race and power in America extended beyond the classroom to her employer, her city and even her own home, has died in Baltimore. She died of adrenal cancer on March 12, said her husband, Nathan Connolly, a professor of history at Johns Hopkins. Though Dr. Mott spent her career in some of academia’s elite spaces, she was firmly committed to the idea that scholarship should be grounded and tangible, not succumbing to ivory tower abstraction. She encouraged students to turn a critical eye to their own backgrounds and to the realities of the world around them. In a city like Baltimore, with its complicated and often cruel racial history, there was plenty to scrutinize.
Persons: Shani Mott, Nathan Connolly, Johns Hopkins, Mott, Mott’s, ” Organizations: Johns Hopkins University, Johns, university’s, Africana Studies Locations: America, Baltimore
☆ Black family receives a home appraisal $259k higher than original after asking a white neighbor to present it for them, report says
  + stars: | 2022-11-19 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
They asked a white neighbor to present it to appraisers and "whitewashed" their home, King 5 reported. The second appraisal, presented by a white woman, came in at $259k higher than the original. The Clark family said they bought their home in Seattle's Columbia City neighborhood for a little under $1m four years ago. Since then, they told King 5 they renovated it by updating the kitchen and a bathroom and adding an extra bathroom. The second appraisal came in at $259,000 higher than the original.
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