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Tim Kaine just called out Donald Trump’s history of housing discrimination
Source: Washington Post
Tim Kaine just called out Donald Trump’s history of housing discrimination
By Emily Badger August 12 at 1:59 PM
Tim Kaine began his career as a fair-housing lawyer, a lesser-known detail about the Democratic vice-presidential nominee now mostly recognized for his mild-mannered dad-ness and goofy Trump impersonations.
For years he sued Richmond landlords and lenders who discriminated against blacks, which gives him deep expertise in a topic that, until now, has not figured into this presidential election. As one civil rights lawyer said to me after the Virginia senator's introduction as Clinton's running mate last month, there hasn't been such a strong fair-housing advocate on a presidential ticket since Walter Mondale, who helped write the 1968 Fair Housing Act.
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Before Trump moved into the business of luxury high-rises and casinos, he helped run a rental empire built by his father in New York that catered to working- and middle-class tenants. In the early 1970s, the Justice Department accused the family of discriminating against black tenants across 39 properties the Trumps managed. The Trumps eventually signed a consent decree that required the company, among other things, to proactively list units in minority publications.
The discrimination at issue at the Trump properties is actually identical to the story Kaine tells of Lorraine in Richmond. From a deep dive on the Trump case earlier this year by Washington Post writers Michael Kranish and Robert O'Harrow Jr.:
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By Emily Badger August 12 at 1:59 PM
Tim Kaine began his career as a fair-housing lawyer, a lesser-known detail about the Democratic vice-presidential nominee now mostly recognized for his mild-mannered dad-ness and goofy Trump impersonations.
For years he sued Richmond landlords and lenders who discriminated against blacks, which gives him deep expertise in a topic that, until now, has not figured into this presidential election. As one civil rights lawyer said to me after the Virginia senator's introduction as Clinton's running mate last month, there hasn't been such a strong fair-housing advocate on a presidential ticket since Walter Mondale, who helped write the 1968 Fair Housing Act.
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Before Trump moved into the business of luxury high-rises and casinos, he helped run a rental empire built by his father in New York that catered to working- and middle-class tenants. In the early 1970s, the Justice Department accused the family of discriminating against black tenants across 39 properties the Trumps managed. The Trumps eventually signed a consent decree that required the company, among other things, to proactively list units in minority publications.
The discrimination at issue at the Trump properties is actually identical to the story Kaine tells of Lorraine in Richmond. From a deep dive on the Trump case earlier this year by Washington Post writers Michael Kranish and Robert O'Harrow Jr.:
When a black woman asked to rent an apartment in a Brooklyn complex managed by Donald Trump’s real estate company, she said she was told that nothing was available. A short time later, a white woman who made the same request was invited to choose between two available apartments.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/08/12/tim-kaine-just-called-out-donald-trumps-history-of-housing-discrimination/
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