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How Democrats’ DEI kept homebuyers in the dark about crime and schools

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Nothing is more natural when buying a house than looking into how safe the neighborhood is — and, if you have or plan to have children, whether the local public schools are any good.

Yet the last Democratic presidential administration tried to prevent real-estate agents from answering those kinds of questions, because it prioritized “diversity” over safety and education.

President Donald Trump’s administration revoked the de facto gag rule this year, but the damage that Joe Biden’s apparatchiks inflicted is still being felt.

What’s worse, state regulations in New York and elsewhere still prevent real-estate agents from speaking freely to homebuyers about crime and schools.

Interfering with homebuying was a first-week priority for Biden’s administration.

Six days after he was sworn into office, Biden issued his directive establishing enforcement priorities for the Department of Housing and Urban Development aimed at scaring real-estate agents into remaining silent on two of the subjects most important to their clients.

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