Racial Discrimination in Housing

Critique of Racial Discrimination in Private Housing

Racial discrimination and physical activity among low-income-housing residents.

BACKGROUND Although discrimination has been identified as a potential determinant of existing racial/ethnic health disparities, no studies have investigated whether racial discrimination contributes to disparities in physical activity. PURPOSE The primary aim of the current study was to examine the association between interpersonal racial discrimination and physical activity. METHODS Baseli...

The Sociology of Discrimination: Racial Discrimination in Employment, Housing, Credit, and Consumer Markets.

Persistent racial inequality in employment, housing, and a wide range of other social domains has renewed interest in the possible role of discrimination. And yet, unlike in the pre-civil rights era, when racial prejudice and discrimination were overt and widespread, today discrimination is less readily identifiable, posing problems for social scientific conceptualization and measurement. This ...

Discrimination and neighborhood effects: understanding racial differentials in US housing prices

Because race and neighborhood characteristics are strongly correlated, studies of racial housing price differentials have yielded results that vary widely depending on the types of neighborhood controls used. This paper shows that even with relatively thorough neighborhood controls, there is still evidence that correlation between the error term and regressors is a source of bias. While recent ...

Cityscape: Housing Discrimination Today

Understanding hot spots of crime has been a concern of spatial criminology for nearly 200 years. A number of methods are used to identify and calculate hot spots, such as dot maps, surface interpolation (kernel density estimation), and statistically identified cluster analysis. Relating to the latter set of methods, local Moran’s I is one of the more commonly used methods for identifying local ...