Disentangling the Effects of Race and Place in Economic Transactions: Findings from an Online Field Experiment

Besbris, Max; Faber, Jacob; Sharkey, Patrick

doi:10.1111/cico.12394

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“…At least one recent study has confirmed that neighborhood stigma exists independent of racial stigma (Besbris, Faber, & Sharkey, 2019). Indeed, this is the case for the "trailer trash" stigma discussed in this article which is primarily aimed at whites.…”

Section: Housing Stigma Neighborhood Stigma and Belongingsupporting

confidence: 62%

“Trailer Trash” Stigma and Belonging in Florida Mobile Home Parks

Kusenbach

2020

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<p>In the United States, residents of mobile homes and mobile home communities are faced with cultural stigmatization regarding their places of living. While common, the “trailer trash” stigma, an example of both housing and neighborhood/territorial stigma, has been understudied in contemporary research. Through a range of discursive strategies, many subgroups within this larger population manage to successfully distance themselves from the stigma and thereby render it inconsequential (Kusenbach, 2009). But what about those residents—typically white, poor, and occasionally lacking in stability—who do not have the necessary resources to accomplish this? This article examines three typical responses by low-income mobile home residents—here called resisting, downplaying, and perpetuating—leading to different outcomes regarding residents’ sense of community belonging. The article is based on the analysis of over 150 qualitative interviews with mobile home park residents conducted in West Central Florida between 2005 and 2010.</p>

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Section: Housing Stigma Neighborhood Stigma and Belongingsupporting

confidence: 62%

“Trailer Trash” Stigma and Belonging in Florida Mobile Home Parks

Kusenbach

2020

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“…Discriminatory policies fed racist ideas about black places (Hirsch 1983; Kendi 2016; Lipsitz 1998; Taylor 2019). Collective ideas about places—for example, negative stigma of poor communities of color (Besbris et al 2015; Besbris, Faber, and Sharkey 2019; Jones and Jackson 2012)—can carry consequences for residential choices.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

We Built This: Consequences of New Deal Era Intervention in America’s Racial Geography

Faber

2020

Am Sociol Rev

132

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The contemporary practice of homeownership in the United States was born out of government programs adopted during the New Deal. The Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC)—and later the Federal Housing Administration and GI Bill—expanded home buying opportunity, although in segregationist fashion. Through mechanisms such as redlining, these policies fueled white suburbanization and black ghettoization, while laying the foundation for the racial wealth gap. This is the first article to investigate the long-term consequences of these policies on the segregation of cities. I combine a full century of census data with archival data to show that cities HOLC appraised became more segregated than those it ignored. The gap emerged between 1930 and 1950 and remains significant: in 2010, the black-white dissimilarity, black isolation, and white-black information theory indices are 12, 16, and 8 points higher in appraised cities, respectively. Results are consistent across a range of robustness checks, including exploitation of imperfect implementation of appraisal guidelines and geographic spillover. These results contribute to current theoretical discussions about the persistence of segregation. The long-term impact of these policies is a reminder of the intentionality that shaped racial geography in the United States, and the scale of intervention that will be required to disrupt the persistence of segregation.

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“…U.S. metropolitan areas are defined by ethnoracial and socioeconomic segregation within and between neighborhoods (Krysan & Crowder, 2017;Massey & Denton, 1993;Quillian & Legrange, 2016;Reardon & Bischoff, 2011). As a result, neighborhoods with higher shares of poor and non-White households tend to be deprived of economic and institutional resources (Quillian, 2012;Sampson, 2012;Small & McDermott, 2006;Wilson, 1987) and their residents face various forms of exploitation, discrimination, and disadvantage (Besbris et al, 2015;Besbris et al, 2019;Desmond & Wilmers, 2019;Faber, 2019b;Quillian, 2014;Sharkey, 2013;Sharkey & Faber, 2014). Before, during, and after the Great Recession, more segregated neighborhoods experienced more subprime lending, more foreclosures, and an increase in the establishment of fringe financial institutions (Faber, 2018a(Faber, , 2018bWyly et al, 2009).…”

Section: External Shocks To the Housing Marketmentioning

confidence: 99%

The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Rental Market: Evidence From Craigslist

Kuk

Schachter

Faber

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American Behavioral Scientist

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Past research has demonstrated the racially and spatially uneven impacts of economic shocks and environmental disasters on various markets. In this article, we examine if and how the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic affected the market for rental housing in the 49 largest metropolitan areas in the United States. Using a unique data set of new rental listings gathered from Craigslist and localized measures of the pandemic’s severity we find that, from mid-March to early June, local spread of COVID-19 is followed by reduced median and mean rent. However, this trend is driven by dropping rents for listings in Black, Latino, and diverse neighborhoods. Listings in majority White neighborhoods experience rent increases during this time. Our analyses make multiple contributions. First, we add to the burgeoning literature examining the rental market as a key site of perpetuating sociospatial inequality. Second, we demonstrate the utility of data gathered online for analyzing housing. And third, by reflecting on research that shows how past crises have increased sociospatial inequality and up-to-date work showing the racially and spatially unequal effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, we discuss some possible mechanisms by which the pandemic may be affecting the market for rental housing as well as implications for long-term trends.

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Disentangling the Effects of Race and Place in Economic Transactions: Findings from an Online Field Experiment

Cited by 18 publications

References 82 publications

“Trailer Trash” Stigma and Belonging in Florida Mobile Home Parks

“Trailer Trash” Stigma and Belonging in Florida Mobile Home Parks

We Built This: Consequences of New Deal Era Intervention in America’s Racial Geography

The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Rental Market: Evidence From Craigslist

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