00:00Nearly half of room rental listings in the Clang Valley on the Room for Rent platform Ivy Lake
00:06state that prospective tenants of a certain race are not welcome.
00:10A new study has revealed.
00:12An analysis of 35,367 listings collected on Feb. 2 and 3 by NGO Architects of Diversity
00:21found that 42.8% explicitly exclude at least one racial group,
00:26making discrimination the most common landlord stance on the platform.
00:31In a statement, AOD Executive Director Jason Wee said landlords can openly refuse tenants on the basis of race.
00:39Meanwhile, tenants who are excluded have no legal avenue for redress.
00:44The study also found that over half of listings in five Clang Valley areas have racial exclusions.
00:50Ampang with 57.5%, Taman Desa with 56.2%, Clang with 54.8%, Setapa with 51.1%, and Bangi with
01:0150.5%.
01:03AOD said that by having a race preference feature that allows landlords to filter prospective tenants by race,
01:09Ivy Lake is normalizing discrimination.
01:12They also said it classified listings as discriminatory if the landlord had activated the platform's race preference function
01:19and explicitly excluded one or more racial groups.
01:23Naramthar Bhaja, FMT.
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