I'm sorry that you are having difficulty understanding the study.
As for redlining not being real? I think I've written here that some years ago, when we were looking to buy our first home in another city/state, we were being shown houses in a particular neighborhood because the relator assumed we were Jewish. That's one form of redlining. We weren't harmed by it. We didn't mind being perceived as Jewish and would have purchased a home in one of those neighborhoods if we could have afforded one (we were outbid). But once we cleared up that we were not looking for a Jewish neighborhood (something she assumed---we never suggested), other neighborhoods suddenly were opened up to us. And we found a nice house we could afford in a neighborhood with excellent schools and a relatively diverse population.
But I'm sure you will believe what you want to believe and disregard... data.
I see no racism. The agent tried to select homes she thought you would want. You told her the pattern was wrong, she adjusted.
I see LP is living up to the thread title.
You wanted snowflakes in action?
You got snowflakes in action.
You tell the agent what you're looking for. When you don't they are going to make a guess that very well might be wrong. This is Toni's failure, not the agent's.
What we told the agent is that we wanted a 3+ bedroom 1 1/2 bathroom home in a nice neighborhood with good schools that we could afford.
The agent made assumptions based upon the fact that we had given our children fairly traditional names that also happen to be found in the Old Testament. Also the New Testament. I'm not sure if she assumed we were Jewish because.....my husband is an academic with curly hair or because I have dark hair/dark eyes and at various times, have been assumed to be Jewish, Arab, Italian, Catholic although I'm none of those things. Note: no one who is actually Jewish or Arab or Italian has ever taken me for being of those ethnicities. Just WASPs
mostly.
The agent made an error based on....frankly I am only guessing her assumptions were based on our kids' names and that only because one of my husband's colleagues asked if we were Jewish and said they wondered because we named our kids .....perfectly common names that are also found in both the New and Old Testaments.
BTW, we ended up with a nice 4 bedroom 1 & 1/2 bath home in nice neighborhood in a diverse family oriented neighborhood which was served by the same excellent school district our children attended while we were renting. Some of our neighbors were Jewish. Some were Arabic, some were Asian, and a couple were black but most were white. I was really sorry to leave that house/neighborhood when we relocated for my husband's job.
But F you for deciding I failed by NOT stating I didn't want a Jewish neighborhood. I didn't care if the neighborhood was Jewish or Arab or Asian or Catholic or Protestant or Hindu or what. It was highly unlikely that she would have steered us towards houses in predominately black neighborhoods given the other assumption she made. We are obviously not black. I cared that we had at least 3 bedrooms, 1 and 1/2 baths, and a good school district.