Housing News: Clipping Sterling's Wings

Someone sent me an Internet the other day about how L.A. Clippers' owner Donald Sterling is showing more bias then Len on a cocaine binge:

The Justice Department on Monday filed a discrimination suit against Los Angeles Clippers owner and real estate mogul Donald Sterling, accusing him of favoring Korean tenants while seeking to exclude African Americans and families with children from his apartment buildings in Los Angeles County....Here in Los Angeles, where housing is already at a premium, it is imperative that no one be denied housing simply because of their skin color, ethnic background or because they have children," said Debra Wong Yang, U.S. attorney in Los Angeles. (Emphasis added.)

Racism is idiotic in every sense of the word, and not only that, but it makes bad business sense to turn away good potential renters (who may want to be owners) simply because they don't look like you. The SoCal housing bubble is one of the most thoroughly dissected and covered in the nation, and everyone from Marinite to the vacationing David can tell you that it's hardly the days of cheap land and available credit out on the left coast.

Sterling needs to get his head right and his ass out of the renting business if he's going to practice such bad behavior, or he's going to get....nah, I've already said it, but it's still true. :)

Posted at August 9, 2006 02:44 PM

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Someone sent me an Internet the other day about how L.A. Clippers' owner Donald Sterling is showing more bias then Len on a cocaine binge: The Justice Department on Monday filed a discrimination suit against Los Angeles Clippers owner and real estate mogul Donald Sterling, accusing him of favoring Korean tenants while seeking to exclude African Americans and families with children from his apartment buildings in Los Angeles County....Here in Los Angeles, where housing is already at a premium, it is imperative that no one be denied housing simply because of their skin color, ethnic background or because they have children," said Debra Wong Yang, U.S. attorney in Los Angeles. (Emphasis added.) Racism is idiotic in every sense of the word, and not only that, but it makes bad business sense to turn away good potential renters (who may want to be owners) simply because they don't look like you. The SoCal housing bubble is one of the most thoroughly dissected and covered in the nation, and everyone from Marinite to the vacationing David can tell you that it's hardly the days of cheap land and available credit out on the left coast. Sterling needs to get his head right and his ass out of the renting business if he's going to practice such bad behavior, or he's going to get....nah, I've already said it, but it's still true. :)