"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."