Racial Discrimination in Home Ownership: A Reevaluation of the Preference Hypothesis
| Autor: | Rebecca F. Guy, Louis G. Pol |
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| Rok vydání: | 1983 |
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Sociology and Political Science
media_common.quotation_subject Taste (sociology) Alternative hypothesis Geography Planning and Development Sample (statistics) Racism Preference Urban Studies Race (biology) Cluster sampling Psychology Social psychology health care economics and organizations media_common |
| Zdroj: | Housing and Society. 10:117-124 |
| ISSN: | 2376-0923 0888-2746 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/08882746.1983.11429933 |
| Popis: | Research on racial discrimination in mortgage lending has proposed three alternative hypotheses for the disparate home-ownership rates between blacks and whites. Although one hypothesis, “differences in ‘taste’ for ownership”, for the most part, has not been tested and has only been assumed to be false, critics suggest that this hypothesis is true and home ownership preferences actually vary by race. The present study tested the difference in taste hypothesis for a sample of nonowners. Two hundred twenty nonowners were selected for interviews in Memphis, Tennessee using a stratified cluster sample. The interview schedule included items aimed at ascertaining home-ownership preferences. As hypothesized, blacks and whites do not differ in “tastes” for home ownership. However, factors affecting home-ownership preferences vary across racial categories when separate black-white preference structures are evaluated. |
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