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Seattle’s residential real estate industry is talking about race and wrestling with some history

By Katherine Khashimova Long, The Seattle Times
Published: August 23, 2020, 12:30pm
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Dave Jones, photographed Aug. 5, 2020 in Tacoma, Washington, is the only Black owner of a Windermere branch and a former middle school principal, who penned a call to action following the protests that has prompted local brokerages to consider tracking how many homes they sell to people of color, among other changes.
Dave Jones, photographed Aug. 5, 2020 in Tacoma, Washington, is the only Black owner of a Windermere branch and a former middle school principal, who penned a call to action following the protests that has prompted local brokerages to consider tracking how many homes they sell to people of color, among other changes. (Ken Lambert/Seattle Times/TNS) Photo Gallery

SEATTLE — The companywide email from CEO Mike Grady struck a sour chord with many at Coldwell Banker Bain, the Bellevue-based residential real estate brokerage.

Bain executives “fully support peaceful demonstrations (and) … equal justice for all people so that everyone is treated equally,” he wrote June 1, as protests against the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd gathered intensity in Seattle and the region.

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