"The fair housing industry spent 15 years on race-focused training while the enforcement action was in disability and rentals."
Oscar Wei is Deputy Chief Economist at the California Association of REALTORS®. His closing session at the 5th Annual Fair Housing Day walked the room through three acts: how California is changing, why the outcomes aren't moving, and where the real frontier is. Click any slide below to explore the data interactively.
Six one-liners from Oscar's deck
On demographics. "California has been 30%+ immigrant for 150 of the last 175 years. The 1950s-70s weren't 'real America', they were the anomaly."
On LGBTQ+. "Silent Generation at 1.8% versus Gen Z at 23.1%, that's not a trend, it's a cliff. Agents still writing 'his and hers' forms are losing a quarter of Gen Z."
On disability. "28.7% is a bigger share than any ethnic group. Every transaction has a disability dimension somewhere."
On race outcomes. "Black first-time buyers were 4% in 2010 and 4% in 2025. Fifteen years of DEI, zero movement at the entry point."
On technology. "AI tenant screening is the 2026 version of FHA redlining, same algorithmic discrimination, just with better PR."
On enforcement. "54.6% of complaints are disability-based, 83.5% happen in rentals. The industry's DEI attention has been on race and sales, the enforcement action has been on disability and rentals."