Attempts to determine the basis for the conscious acts and decisions of individuals and organizations which constitute housing discrimination, in order to be able to decide how to intervene most effectively; the racial practices of real estate brokers are held to offer one such point of intervention. (RJ)

This report presents a set of tested procedures designed to yield current estimates of housing demand potential among black and Spanish speaking minority groups in United States metropolitan housing market areas during periods between Federal censuses. To produce estimates for the black homeseeker market, the analyst first "ages" the black…

The spatial variation in racial housing market discrimination is investigated. Findings show that all-white areas and areas which are gaining in black residents have higher discrimination rates than black areas with stable populations. Housing agents discriminate when they fear losing business from prejudiced white clients. (VM)