Dianne Etri

Etri met with two testers, one white and one Black, looking for $450,000 homes within 30 minutes of Garden City. She said to a white tester, "So a lot of people will say to me, ‘Oh, I don’t care. I’ll take Freeport and all the houses are cheap there. I don’t care about the school district. I don’t have any children.’ I say, ‘But you have to protect your investment.' You’re not really putting your money in the right place, because now you're in a bad school district, and that’s not good for resell value." To a Black tester, she said, "I have a property in Freeport – this house is too big for you, though. And the other one that is nice I just sold. You would have liked that one, but that’s Freeport. You might like Freeport." She provided more listings, in more predominantly white areas, to the white tester than to the Black tester. The Department of State filed an administrative complaint against Etri, which it has not made public. A decision by an administrative law judge is pending. Etri declined to comment.