The Unequal Availability of Rental Housing Information Across Neighborhoods

被引:19
作者
Besbris, Max [1 ]
Schachter, Ariela [2 ]
Kuk, John [3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Sociol, Madison, WI 53706 USA
[2] Washington Univ, Dept Sociol, St Louis, MO USA
[3] Univ Oklahoma, Dept Polit Sci, Norman, OK USA
关键词
Rental housing; Housing search; Craigslist; Neighborhood inequality; Racial/ethnic inequality; RESIDENTIAL-MOBILITY DECISIONS; RACIAL-DISCRIMINATION; NEW-YORK; INCOME; PREFERENCES; SEARCH; RACE; GENTRIFICATION; SEGREGATION; STEREOTYPES;
D O I
10.1215/00703370-9357518
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C921 [人口统计学];
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摘要
As more urban residents find their housing through online search tools, recent research has theorized the potential for online information to transform and equalize the housing search process. Yet, very little is known about what rental housing information is available online. Using a corpus of millions of geocoded Craigslist advertisements for rental housing across the 50 largest metropolitan statistical areas in the United States merged with census tractlevel data from the American Community Survey, we identify and describe the types of information commonly included in listings across different types of neighborhoods. We find that in the online housing market, renters are exposed to fundamentally different types of information depending on the ethnoracial and socioeconomic makeup of the neighborhoods where they are searching.
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页码:1197 / 1221
页数:25
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