Closed Doors, Opportunities Lost: Continuing Cost of Housing Discrimination - Hardcover

Reports on a landmark nationwide investigation of real estate brokers and landlords, comparing their treatment of equally qualified white, black, and Hispanic customers and finding that illegal housing discrimination against blacks and Hispanics continues to be widespread in the US. Includes the author's comprehensive program to end discrimination and to reverse its long-term effects. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

John Yinger is professor of economics and public administration, and associate director for the Metropolitan Studies Program at the Center for Policy Research, the Maxwell School, Syracuse University.