Pub Date : 2023-08-13DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2023.2232204
Shahar Sansani
AbstractIn this paper, we examine ethnic discrimination against landlords by analysing whether landlords who are Palestinian citizens of Israel (PCI) (minority) receive fewer inquiries than Jewish (non-minority) landlords for available apartments for rent. Two hundred and forty eight fictitious advertisements for apartments for rent were advertised, half with names signalling Jewish individuals and half with names signalling individuals who are PCI. Moreover, the amount of information regarding the apartments was varied, as half of the advertisements included pictures and a longer description of the apartments, decreasing the uncertainty regarding potential landlords. Finally, through contact-sharing smartphone applications, we examine the ethnicity of the individuals calling each type of advertisement. The main finding is that Jewish landlords receive 36 percent more inquiries overall than landlords who are PCI, from 29 percent more unique phone numbers than landlords who are PCI. This finding holds for both high-information and low-information listings. In addition, we find that the more left-leaning a city is politically, the smaller the difference in inquiries between the two types of landlords.KEYWORDS: : Discriminationethnicitylandlordscorrespondence studyhousing market AcknowledgementsI would like to thank seminar participants at the University of California, Merced, and the College of Management Academic Studies, Israel, for helpful suggestions.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors. The experiment performed in this study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the College of Management Academic Studies, Rishon Lezion, Israel (Reference # 98-2017).Notes1 The term Palestinian citizens of Israel (PCI) refers to the 20% of Israeli citizens who are Arab-Palestinian, and were granted Israeli citizenship when the state was established in 1948. This group is sometimes referred to as Arab-Israelis, Palestinians inside Israel, ‘48 Arabs, Palestinian Arabs, or Palestinian Israelis (Berger, Citation2019). While the term “Arab” has commonly been used in studies comparing PCI to Jews in Israel, the term Arab is broad, and refers to people living in many other countries. Moreover, a large part of the Jewish population in Israel immigrated from Arab countries like Iraq, Yemen, and Morocco, among others, but in Israel they are not referred to as “Arab”.2 Other contexts where customer discrimination has been found include: Baseball card trade shows (List, Citation2004), baseball cards sold on the internet (Ayres et al., Citation2015), and Ipods sold on the internet (Doleac & Stein, Citation2013).3 Discrimination of landlords against potential tenants has also been tested using audit studies. These studies match real-life applicants on all characteristics except the one being studied (e.g. one Black individual and one white individual), coach them to behave similarly, and send them to seek housing from randomly se
{"title":"Ethnic discrimination against landlords in the rental housing market","authors":"Shahar Sansani","doi":"10.1080/19491247.2023.2232204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2023.2232204","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractIn this paper, we examine ethnic discrimination against landlords by analysing whether landlords who are Palestinian citizens of Israel (PCI) (minority) receive fewer inquiries than Jewish (non-minority) landlords for available apartments for rent. Two hundred and forty eight fictitious advertisements for apartments for rent were advertised, half with names signalling Jewish individuals and half with names signalling individuals who are PCI. Moreover, the amount of information regarding the apartments was varied, as half of the advertisements included pictures and a longer description of the apartments, decreasing the uncertainty regarding potential landlords. Finally, through contact-sharing smartphone applications, we examine the ethnicity of the individuals calling each type of advertisement. The main finding is that Jewish landlords receive 36 percent more inquiries overall than landlords who are PCI, from 29 percent more unique phone numbers than landlords who are PCI. This finding holds for both high-information and low-information listings. In addition, we find that the more left-leaning a city is politically, the smaller the difference in inquiries between the two types of landlords.KEYWORDS: : Discriminationethnicitylandlordscorrespondence studyhousing market AcknowledgementsI would like to thank seminar participants at the University of California, Merced, and the College of Management Academic Studies, Israel, for helpful suggestions.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors. The experiment performed in this study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the College of Management Academic Studies, Rishon Lezion, Israel (Reference # 98-2017).Notes1 The term Palestinian citizens of Israel (PCI) refers to the 20% of Israeli citizens who are Arab-Palestinian, and were granted Israeli citizenship when the state was established in 1948. This group is sometimes referred to as Arab-Israelis, Palestinians inside Israel, ‘48 Arabs, Palestinian Arabs, or Palestinian Israelis (Berger, Citation2019). While the term “Arab” has commonly been used in studies comparing PCI to Jews in Israel, the term Arab is broad, and refers to people living in many other countries. Moreover, a large part of the Jewish population in Israel immigrated from Arab countries like Iraq, Yemen, and Morocco, among others, but in Israel they are not referred to as “Arab”.2 Other contexts where customer discrimination has been found include: Baseball card trade shows (List, Citation2004), baseball cards sold on the internet (Ayres et al., Citation2015), and Ipods sold on the internet (Doleac & Stein, Citation2013).3 Discrimination of landlords against potential tenants has also been tested using audit studies. These studies match real-life applicants on all characteristics except the one being studied (e.g. one Black individual and one white individual), coach them to behave similarly, and send them to seek housing from randomly se","PeriodicalId":47119,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Housing Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135308829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-13DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2023.2234151
R. Coulter
{"title":"Housing becomes a family affair","authors":"R. Coulter","doi":"10.1080/19491247.2023.2234151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2023.2234151","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47119,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Housing Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85346869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-08DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2023.2232201
Sowmya Balachandran
{"title":"Making low-income and minority homeownership work: non-profit intermediary networks in the Chicago region","authors":"Sowmya Balachandran","doi":"10.1080/19491247.2023.2232201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2023.2232201","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47119,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Housing Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86265751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-07DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2023.2232205
M. Mangold, Helena Bohman, Tim Johansson, Jenny von Platten
{"title":"Increased rent misspent? How ownership matters for renovation and rent increases in rental housing in Sweden","authors":"M. Mangold, Helena Bohman, Tim Johansson, Jenny von Platten","doi":"10.1080/19491247.2023.2232205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2023.2232205","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47119,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Housing Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82957167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-31DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2023.2235766
Daisy Charlesworth, Mika Hyötyläinen
{"title":"Housing cooperatives and the contradictions of Finnish land and housing policies","authors":"Daisy Charlesworth, Mika Hyötyläinen","doi":"10.1080/19491247.2023.2235766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2023.2235766","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47119,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Housing Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85135442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2023.2236357
J. Wood
Kretzler, B., König, H. H., & Hajek, A. (2022). Pet ownership, loneliness, and social isolation: A systematic review. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 57(10), 1935–1957. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-022-02332-9 Race Equality Foundation. (2022). Awaab Ishak: another avoidable tragedy. Retrieved July 10, 2023, from https://raceequalityfoundation.org.uk/housing/awaab-ishakanotvoidable-tragedy/
Kretzler, B., König, H. H., & Hajek, A.(2022)。养宠物,孤独和社会隔离:一个系统的回顾。社会精神病学与精神病学,57(10),1935-1957。https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-022-02332-9种族平等基金会。(2022)。Awaab Ishak:另一个可以避免的悲剧。2023年7月10日检索自https://raceequalityfoundation.org.uk/housing/awaab-ishakanotvoidable-tragedy/
{"title":"What Town Planners Do: Exploring Planning Practices and the Public Interest Through Workplace Ethnographies","authors":"J. Wood","doi":"10.1080/19491247.2023.2236357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2023.2236357","url":null,"abstract":"Kretzler, B., König, H. H., & Hajek, A. (2022). Pet ownership, loneliness, and social isolation: A systematic review. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 57(10), 1935–1957. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-022-02332-9 Race Equality Foundation. (2022). Awaab Ishak: another avoidable tragedy. Retrieved July 10, 2023, from https://raceequalityfoundation.org.uk/housing/awaab-ishakanotvoidable-tragedy/","PeriodicalId":47119,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Housing Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72876160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-02DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2023.2189865
C. Cui, Shan Yu, Jie Chen, Jiayi Li
{"title":"How home buyers finance their homeownership in post-reform urban China? Changing dynamics of variegated financial pathways","authors":"C. Cui, Shan Yu, Jie Chen, Jiayi Li","doi":"10.1080/19491247.2023.2189865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2023.2189865","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47119,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Housing Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76381207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-18DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2023.2189866
Kristin Aarland, C. Reid
{"title":"The impact of refinancing on housing outcomes among lower-income households","authors":"Kristin Aarland, C. Reid","doi":"10.1080/19491247.2023.2189866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2023.2189866","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47119,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Housing Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78351962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2023.2209932
J. Flint
{"title":"The lived experiences and temporality of estate regeneration","authors":"J. Flint","doi":"10.1080/19491247.2023.2209932","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2023.2209932","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47119,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Housing Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74316510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2023.2204650
E. Baker, R. Bentley
The connection between housing—its quality, or security or affordability— and the health and wellbeing of people is well evidenced, but often underrepresented in the day-to-day governance of our cities and regions. The reasons for this underestimation are, to some extent, understandable, because the ways in which housing affects health are multiple, highly individualised, and interrelated. As the papers in this Special Issue show, despite international agreement on the fundamental requirement of shelter to enable people to have productive and healthy lives, housing is not a simple lever that can be pulled to improve or protect people’s health. This collection of papers captures an important time in the evolution of housing research, a time when the role of housing was as far from providing simple shelter, as it has ever been. Though the special issue was planned well before the pandemic, these papers were written largely from home offices in lockdown—from kitchen tables, and temporary desks in bedrooms and shared spaces. Regardless of the nation they were written in, this background context infuses the whole collection with a powerful new take on the role of housing in people’s lives and their health. Housing is portrayed as a protector, a key source of harm and risk, a powerful but invisible buffer, a place of stability, and a generator of health inequalities. As we reflect on this collection of papers in 2023, house prices, renter rights and household aspirations are gradually returning to their pre-pandemic trajectories. But arguably, the way people and governments regard housing has been changed forever—largely for the better. Dweik and Woodhall-Melnik’s (2022) systematic review, looks across a large literature to identify robust evidence on the impact of publicly subsidised housing on mental health. They find, despite the apparent ubiquity of social housing’s role in protecting tenants’ health, that there is a surprising sparsity of robust evidence of impact. Further, that what evidence there is, is shown to be highly dependent on the specifics of the housing programme, assistance measure, and neighbourhood being assessed. The authors note the pressing need, especially in the context of the economic uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic, for policies that can improve the outcomes and experiences of economically marginalised populations, such as those housed in social and public housing. For this, new, directed work to provide rigorous evidence needs to occur. Gurney’s (2021), ‘Dangerous Liaisons’, uses a systematic literature mapping to provide us with a fresh consideration of the relationship between https://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2023.2204650
{"title":"Housing and health: a time for action","authors":"E. Baker, R. Bentley","doi":"10.1080/19491247.2023.2204650","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2023.2204650","url":null,"abstract":"The connection between housing—its quality, or security or affordability— and the health and wellbeing of people is well evidenced, but often underrepresented in the day-to-day governance of our cities and regions. The reasons for this underestimation are, to some extent, understandable, because the ways in which housing affects health are multiple, highly individualised, and interrelated. As the papers in this Special Issue show, despite international agreement on the fundamental requirement of shelter to enable people to have productive and healthy lives, housing is not a simple lever that can be pulled to improve or protect people’s health. This collection of papers captures an important time in the evolution of housing research, a time when the role of housing was as far from providing simple shelter, as it has ever been. Though the special issue was planned well before the pandemic, these papers were written largely from home offices in lockdown—from kitchen tables, and temporary desks in bedrooms and shared spaces. Regardless of the nation they were written in, this background context infuses the whole collection with a powerful new take on the role of housing in people’s lives and their health. Housing is portrayed as a protector, a key source of harm and risk, a powerful but invisible buffer, a place of stability, and a generator of health inequalities. As we reflect on this collection of papers in 2023, house prices, renter rights and household aspirations are gradually returning to their pre-pandemic trajectories. But arguably, the way people and governments regard housing has been changed forever—largely for the better. Dweik and Woodhall-Melnik’s (2022) systematic review, looks across a large literature to identify robust evidence on the impact of publicly subsidised housing on mental health. They find, despite the apparent ubiquity of social housing’s role in protecting tenants’ health, that there is a surprising sparsity of robust evidence of impact. Further, that what evidence there is, is shown to be highly dependent on the specifics of the housing programme, assistance measure, and neighbourhood being assessed. The authors note the pressing need, especially in the context of the economic uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic, for policies that can improve the outcomes and experiences of economically marginalised populations, such as those housed in social and public housing. For this, new, directed work to provide rigorous evidence needs to occur. Gurney’s (2021), ‘Dangerous Liaisons’, uses a systematic literature mapping to provide us with a fresh consideration of the relationship between https://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2023.2204650","PeriodicalId":47119,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Housing Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86105141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}