After reading 'The Color of Law' by Richard Rothstein, I understand how deeply ingrained housing discrimination is in our society. Before this 1968 ordinance, appraisers and the HOA themselves would drum up race-mixing fears about neighborhood integration; to support their claims that integration was a bad idea, they stooped as low as to legitimately pay Black people to drive through neighborhoods blasting loud music in order to artificially devalue the property and influence white folks to move en masse. The idea that Black people residing in a neighborhood inherently lowers its value is a very, very old one and a carefully constructed one at that. If an appraiser wants to continue to lowball black people, they are free to do so. If a real estate agent has been pressured by a neighborhood community to keep out 'undesirables', or they have their own personal biases, they are free to do so. These facts, coupled with realities like redlining and predatory sub-prime mortgage lending, keep black folks in a seemingly never-ending battle to obtain the dream we're entitled to. So many parts of our country are more segregated than they were even 50 years ago.