WASHINGTON (AP) — Minority renters and homebuyers deployed to test for housing discrimination did not run into the blatant discrimination of four decades ago, but were told about and shown fewer homes than their white counterparts with similar backgrounds, according to the results of a major federal housing study released Tuesday.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development deployed pairs of testers — one white, one minority in each pair — to do more than 8,000 tests separately across 28 metropolitan areas in the $9 million, study the Obama administration conducted last year. Testers’ were the same gender and age and presented themselves as equally qualified to rent or buy a unit in the study whose results were released Tuesday.