Housing Discrimination and the Toxics Exposure Gap in the United States: Evidence from the Rental Market
通过在线住房平台的通信实验，发现非裔和拉丁裔租客在低污染区域获得房东回复的概率比白人低41%，表明住房歧视加剧了少数族裔的环境暴露差距。
Abstract Local pollution exposures have a disproportionate impact on minority households, but the root causes remain unclear. This study conducts a correspondence experiment on a major online housing platform to test whether housing discrimination constrains minority access to housing options in markets with significant sources of airborne chemical toxics. We find that renters with African American or Hispanic/Latinx names are 41% less likely than renters with white names to receive responses for properties in low-exposure locations. We find no evidence of discriminatory constraints in high-exposure locations, indicating that discrimination increases relative access to housing choices at elevated exposure risk.