"LI Divided" Continued: NYS DOS Mistake Prompts New Calls for Regulation

Newsday's Editorial Board recently called upon New York State lawmakers to further regulate the real estate industry. This comes in response to the recent revelation that "New York mistakenly granted a new professional license to a real estate agent six months after revoking his previous licenses for what state officials called 'discriminatory' conduct revealed in Newsday’s Long Island Divided investigation into housing bias."

"If New York State wants to help combat Long Island's ugly strain of housing discrimination, it has to start with the real estate agents who remain the front line of most home sale transactions," wrote Newsday's Editorial Board. "But weeding out the bad apples and maintaining the highest ethical standards require tight enforcement, strong laws and regulations, and open records that allow everyone to see into an often too-opaque world."