He was not afraid to sell to anyone.  He sold to his own people which assured that the Japanese would be assured to own property on the Westside.  But Kaz just did not sell to his own but he sold to African Americans and Latinos as well.  He had finance connections.  In the early years he assisted his clients with private financing as no banks would finance Asians or Blacks. Over the years Inouye was able to work with banks.  He had the staying power and never gave up on the neighborhood or the people.  He knew those buying in the Crenshaw area were Asians with hard earned savings and professional hard working Blacks with good jobs.  Having been a resident of Manzanar, he had felt the pangs of discrimination.  Kaz knew that the establishment could and would align itself against you for the slightest thing as the color of your skin.  He did not let that stop him.  When asked by a racist city bureau who he was going to sell city houses to, Kaz politely told them that, he would sell houses to whoever was going to do the best for the city and community.  Unlike other realtors in the city he did not participate in promotional developer sales and defied racial covenants and redlining. 

“A typical covenant included the following: 

‘…hereafter no part of said property or any portion thereof shall be…occupied by any person not of the Caucasian race, it being intended hereby to restrict the use of said property…against occupancy as owners or tenants of any portion of said property for resident or other purposes by people of the Negro or Mongolian race.”’  source>