SMFH ! A website called Picket Report marketed as a new online research tool that helps home buyers find their “perfect neighborhood” has been forced to remove a controversial section which apparently racially stereotyped various neighborhoods: Picket Report offered the section as a way for househunters to discover more about areas they might like to live in, but was quickly accused of insensitivity owing to the race- and class-related descriptions it provided. The section was later removed from the Detroit-based start-up after an embarrassing article published on real estate website Curbed Detroit. When the zip code for Detroit’s poorest neighbourhood – 48208 – was plugged into the website, several shocking descriptions popped up. Neighbours in these areas were labelled things like ‘Soul Survivors – Older, down-scale African-Americans, singles, and single parents established in modest urban homes’ and ‘Cuidad [sic] Strivers – Mid-scale Hispanic families and single parents in gateway communities.’ The word for city in Spanish is actually spelled ‘Ciudad.’ Other social pariahs singled out were ‘Hard Times’ (‘Older, down-scale and ethnically-diverse singles typically concentrated in inner-city apartments’) and ‘Rolling The Dice’ (‘middle-aged, mid-scale income singles and divorced individuals in secondary cities’) WTF?! And you thought gentrification was bad. Source More On Bossip! Cheese So Hard… That Isht Cray! We’ve Never Seen Yeezy Look So Happy In His Life Bad Girls Club Season 8 Reunion First Clips: First Time Audience Member Scrap At Reunion [Video] The OMG Girls Speak To Bossip Exclusively About Their Career Family And Boys Peace, My Brother: A List Of The 10 LEAST Violent States In America
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There Goes The Neighborhood: Real Estate Website Uses Racial Stereotypes To Help White People Find “Perfect Neighborhoods”
