A lack of adequate housing in the Southern California city studied was perceived by minority groups to be the result of racial discrimination. To verify this, 25 apartment houses were visited by male-female couples from three ethnic groups: Mexican-American, Negro, and Caucasian. The couples ...
Discrimination in the housing market may create large economic inefficiencies and unfair individual outcomes, but is very difficult to measure. To circumvent the problems with unobserved heterogeneity, most recent studies use the correspondence testing approach (i.e. sending fictitious inquiries to landlord...
Senior living communities are also legally obligated to protect LGBTQ seniors. A facility’s failure to address harassment by other residents can be considered discrimination. In housing establishments that provide medical care, such as nursing homes, there are certain requirements in place.The Affordabl...
In contrast to other studies... K Heylen,VDB Katleen - 《Housing Studies》 被引量: 6发表: 2015年 Examining differential treatment of single mothers and people with disabilities in the apartment rental market DiscriminationField studyHousingSingle motherDisabilityThis paper attempts to improve our ...
So whether you are advertising your property,screening new tenants,or setting apartment rules, make sure that you are in compliance with the law and that any actions or policies apply to everyone (with supporting documentation), and cannot be construed as affecting some people but not others. ...
This is a question I was asked a few months ago, when I met a male classmate with whom I was close to in university. My first reaction was embarrassment. Because it was a question I’d never been asked before. I’d never thought of myself as *not* a feminist, to the point where...
The Justice Department announced today that it has filed a lawsuit alleging that the Housing Authority of the Town of Lone Wolf, Oklahoma, along with its former employees, David Haynes and Myrna Hess, violated the Fair Housing Act and Title VI of the Civ
The article discusses the results of a study on housing discrimination against gays and lesbians in the U.S., published by the Housing and Urban Development Department (HUD) in 2013. HUD sent out dual electronic-mail (e-mail) responses to a Craigslist rental apartment listing from heterosexual...
In our experiment, four type of applicants varying in gender (male and female) and modality (same and opposite sex) reply to Internet ads to express interest in renting an apartment in the metropolitan areas of Porto and Lisbon. All applicant couples are presented as married, stable and ...
This page was processed by apollo7 in 0.297 seconds discriminationfield experimentstatistical discriminationhousing marketsA model of racial discrimination provides testable implications for two features of statistical discriminators: differential treatment of signals by race and he...