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Buffett’s mortgage companies found to cater to white clients

Buffett's mortgage companies found to cater to white clients | iNFOnews.ca
In this undated photo, Beth Warshaw, 38, works with a white real estate agent and white loan officer at Trident Mortgage Co. when she bought her Philadelphia home in the primarily African American neighborhood of Point Breeze neighborhood of Philadelphia. (Rachel de Leon/Reveal via AP)

Mortgages lenders controlled by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway are making the vast majority of their home loans to white borrowers in a way that former prosecutors say may violate the Fair Housing Act, a 50-year-old law that banned racial discrimination in lending.

That’s according to a new exposé by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting.

The non-profit newsroom examined the records of three lenders under Berkshire Hathaway’s corporate umbrella. It found the companies — HomeServices Lending, Prosperity Home Mortgage, and Trident Mortgage Corporation — employed overwhelmingly white teams of loan officers, placed their offices in white neighbourhoods, and concentrated their lending in white neighbourhoods.

Among their biggest markets are Atlanta, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC, where a majority of residents are people of colour.

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