Creator

• Mileo Gorzig, Marina
• Rho, Deborah

Series

• Institute working paper (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute)

Issue number

• 061

Date created

• 2023-05-19

Abstract

• Policies that reduce information on applicants have mixed results in the labor market. However, little is known about their impact in the housing market. We submitted fictitious email inquiries to publicly advertised rentals using names manipulated on perceived race and ethnicity before and after a policy that restricted the use of background checks, eviction history, income minimums, and credit history in rental housing applications in Minneapolis. After the policy was implemented, discrimination against African American and Somali American men increased. Triple difference analysis shows that discrimination increased in Minneapolis relative to St. Paul after the policy.

Subject (JEL)

• J15 - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
• J68 - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies: Public Policy
• R31 - Housing Supply and Markets

Keyword

• Discrimination
• Race/Ethnicity
• Housing
• Immigration

Related information

• This paper previously circulated with the title "The Impact of Limiting Applicant Information on Rental Housing Discrimination."

Date modified

• 05/19/2023

Corporate Author

• Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute

Publisher

• Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Resource type

• Research Paper

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.21034/iwp.61

License

• Creative Commons BY-NC Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

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• Institute Working Papers

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