KUALA LUMPUR, March 11 -- A new study released by non-profit organisation, Architects of Diversity, has revealed that the room rental market in the Klang Valley displays significant racial discrimination, particularly against the Indian ethnic group.

The report, titled "Room Rental Discrimination. Volume 1: The Klang Valley Report", is the first systematic quantitative analysis of explicit racial discrimination in Malaysia's rental sector.

Using data from a renowned room rental platform, the study analysed 35,367 listings to assess the extent of racial filtering by landlords and agents.

Alarmingly, 42.8 per cent of these listings featured explicit racial exclusions, surpassing those that welcomed all races (22.6 per cent) or had no sta...