The Unequal Availability of Rental Housing Information Across Neighborhoods.
Craigslist
Housing search
Neighborhood inequality
Racial/ethnic inequality
Rental housing
Journal
Demography
ISSN: 1533-7790
Titre abrégé: Demography
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0226703
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
01 08 2021
01 08 2021
Historique:
pubmed:
2
7
2021
medline:
8
3
2022
entrez:
1
7
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
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 tract-level 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.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34196705
pii: 173903
doi: 10.1215/00703370-9357518
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
1197-1221Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2021 The Authors.