{"id":6887,"date":"2021-12-24T15:13:56","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T15:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6887"},"modified":"2021-12-24T15:13:56","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T15:13:56","slug":"black-and-hispanic-renters-experience-discrimination-in-almost-every-major-american-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6887","title":{"rendered":"Black and Hispanic renters experience discrimination in almost every major American city"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“In a new working paper<\/a> from the National Bureau of Economic Research, researchers found rampant racial discrimination in American rental markets \u2014 specifically, that property managers are less likely to respond to prospective Black and Hispanic tenants when they inquire about open listings.
Using a software bot, the economists sent inquiries from fake renters to 8,476 property managers in the 50 largest US metropolitan housing markets. The bot assigned names to fictitious renters that would indicate whether the race of the inquirer was white, Black, or Hispanic.
The bot found that names perceived to be white got a response 5.6 percentage points more than Black-sounding names, and 2.8 percentage points more than Hispanic-sounding names.”
…
“You might be familiar with r\u00e9sum\u00e9 studies where researchers will send in identical r\u00e9sum\u00e9s with just one thing changed, such as a 2003 study<\/a> by economists Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan that showed r\u00e9sum\u00e9s with names perceived as Black received 50 percent fewer callbacks than those with white-sounding names.”   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22815563\/rental-housing-market-racism-discrimination<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“In a new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research, researchers found rampant racial discrimination in American rental markets \u2014 specifically, that property managers are less likely to respond to prospective Black and Hispanic tenants when they inquire about open listings.<\/p>\n

Using a software bot, the economists sent inquiries from fake renters to 8,476 property managers in the 50 largest US metropolitan housing markets. The bot assigned names to fictitious renters that would indicate whether the race of the inquirer was white, Black, or Hispanic.<\/p>\n

The bot found that names perceived to be white got a response 5.6 percentage points more than Black-sounding names, and 2.8 percentage points more than Hispanic-sounding names.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“You might be familiar with r\u00e9sum\u00e9 studies where researchers will send in identical r\u00e9sum\u00e9s with just one thing changed, such as a 2003 study by economists Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan that showed r\u00e9sum\u00e9s with names perceived as Black received 50 percent fewer callbacks than those with white-sounding names.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[56,86,943,270,642,49],"class_list":["post-6887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-black","tag-discrimination","tag-hispanic","tag-housing","tag-race","tag-racial-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6888,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6887\/revisions\/6888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}