The Fair Housing Council of Oregon has been sending spies into rental units. To test whether landlords were discriminating against potential black and Latino renters, the Portland Housing Bureau asked the housing equity group to deploy white, black, and Latino actors to "For Rent" apartments across the city and see whether any group received differential treatment.

The dispiriting results? As the audit results in April and an Oregonian article today report, 64 percent of the 50 landlords or property managers involved failed the test.

In 17 or 25 cases involving Latino renters and 15 of 25 cases involving black renters, the non-white actors were quoted higher rental rates, not offered specials or applications, given extra fees, or shown worse units that the white actors. This all without landlords running background, credit or criminal history checks.

If you think you've been discriminated against in your housing, you can file a complaint with the state here.