On 136 agencies, divided in France, 49% agreed to practice a discriminatory selection.
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Three years after its first testing of discriminatory practices with real estate agencies in Ile-de-France, SOS-Racism has renewed it, in 2022, with 136 agencies in the entire France. The innovation method: rather than submitting applications from tenants, members of the association have passed, by telephone, for private donors whose name, fictitious, sounded “Old France”, seeking to rent an apartment but refusing Any tenant of foreign or supposed origin, insisting on the “Arabic and black profiles, in order to avoid neighborhood problems,” they said.
The observation, published on Monday, March 21, shows a slight progress compared to 2019, since 51% of the agencies contacted have refused any net to practice this discriminatory and illegal selection, against 48% three years ago. “No, we can not discriminate, answered an employee of the Nestenn de Marseille agency. That’s serious what you tell me, I can not, I do not have the right and I can be Attacked for that. “” I stop you right away, answered another, the address, in Toulouse. If you find an agency that accepts you, go, because I, I will not accept this Type of application. “” First, this kind of discrimination is strictly illegal, retorted a manager of the National Real Estate Federation (FNAIM) of Toulouse, and if I have this kind of directive, I will not follow it. “
In 34 agencies, or about 25% of the tested, however, the sales administrator has accepted the solicitation without snow: “It’s things we’re going to put on the ad because we have Not the right, but we will make sure that, on the accession of tenants, we pay attention to that, “promised a FNAIM agency in the South of France. David Chouraqui, Managing Director of the Square Habitat Network, a subsidiary of Crédit Agricole, three agencies are shown by this testing, does not hide his anger: “These practices are serious and do not match our values, so I will study in Detail these contested cases “, it promises.
” Some impunity “
Finally, 23% of the professionals contacted adopt an ambiguous attitude, recalling the illegality of the setpoint but leaving to the owner the care of applying it: “Normally, I do not have the right, because it is from the Discrimination, and if the file is solvent, if it is good, I am in the obligation to offer you, argued an agent Guy Hoquet of Western France. Afterwards, you stay decisionor “, he concludes he concluded . “In the law, I’m going to tell you” No, it’s not possible “it would be a problem of discrimination, advanced another, the network address, also in the West. But it’s up to you to take the decision. “
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