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Geography of Housing Discrimination

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  • Jan Ondrich
  • Stephen Ross
  • John Yinger

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Discrimination in housing may vary systematically from one neighborhood to another. This article explores that possibility using a new approach based on data from fair housing audits. This approach compares real estate agents’ decision to show a house to white customers with their decision to show the same house to black customers. The data are from the 1989 Housing Discrimination Study in Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York.In all four areas, discrimination decreases with the distance between a house and the agent’s office. This result is consistent with the hypothesis that agents are less likely to discriminate when a sale to a black customer is hidden from the white customers who make up the agents’ main clientele. Moreover, agents in Atlanta and Chicago steer black customers toward heavily black neighborhoods.

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  • Jan Ondrich & Stephen Ross & John Yinger, 2001. "Geography of Housing Discrimination," Journal of Housing Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 12(2), pages 217-238, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rjrhxx:v:12:y:2001:i:2:p:217-238
    DOI: 10.1080/26911337.2001.12519469
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