HUD: Housing Discrimination Against Racial And Ethnic Minorities 2012

For much of the twentieth century, discrimination by private real
estate agents and rental property owners helped establish and sustain
stark patterns of housing and neighborhood inequality. Beginning in the
late 1970s, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has
rigorously monitored trends in racial and ethnic discrimination in both
rental and sales markets approximately once each decade through a series
of nationwide paired-testing studies. This summary report presents
findings from the fourth such study, which applied paired-testing
methodology in 28 metropolitan areas to measure the incidence and forms
of discrimination experienced by black, Hispanic, and Asian renters and
homebuyers.

When well-qualified minority homeseekers contact housing providers to
inquire about recently advertised housing units, they usually, but not
always, are just as likely as equally qualified white homeseekers to get
an appointment and learn about at least one available housing unit.
However, when differences in treatment occur, white homeseekers are more
likely to be favored than minorities. Most important, minority
homeseekers are told about and shown fewer homes and apartments than
whites.

<br>***Microdata: Yes Level of Analysis: Individual - Housing Providers; Local - Zip Code Variables Present: Yes - separate document File Layout: .sas Codebook: Yes Methods: Yes Weights (with appropriate documentation): Yes Publications: No Aggregate Data: No