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Room rentals in the Klang Valley that accept Indian tenants cost on average 11.2 percent more (about RM74 extra) compared to those that exclude the community, effectively imposing a “discrimination premium”, a report by Architects of Diversity (AOD) found.
The report, which examines rental discrimination across the Klang Valley, said the cheapest rooms are also the most explicitly discriminatory against Indians, as 43.7 percent of listings below RM400 deliberately exclude them.
This was similar for Chinese renters, who were excluded from 26.6 percent of listings in the same category, the report said.
On the other hand, Malay renters experienced a different pattern of discrimination, as they were consistently excluded from listings across different room prices at the rates of 5.5 to 8.5 percent.
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