Landlords less likely to reply to applicants with Black, LatinX names

By Biba Adams, The grio

The survey tracked over 25,000 interactions across the country between property managers and fake renters using names associated with non-White identities.

A new study has confirmed that landlords across the United States are less likely to respond to rental applicants who have Black or LatinX-sounding names…

The fake renters with white-sounding names received a 60% response rate, compared to 57% for the Hispanic-sounding identities, and 54% for African-American sounding names. Additionally, “inquiries sent from African-American identities received response rates that were approximately 12% lower (than response rates to comparison white identities) in the Midwest and in the Northeast, 7.9% lower in the West and 7.6% lower in the South.”

The report cited a project from the Othering & Belonging Institute at Berkeley University, which noted that out of every metropolitan region in the United States with more than 200,000 residents, 81% of those communities were more segregated in 2019 than in 1990…

The study reveals that there is direct evidence linking discrimination faced by renters of color and the income gap.

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