Examining housing discrimination across race, gender and felony history

Evans, Douglas N.; Blount‐Hill, Kwan‐Lamar; Cubellis, Michelle A.

doi:10.1080/02673037.2018.1478069

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“…As noted above, securing stable housing is a common challenge for people with criminal records (Dong et al, 2018a; Evans et al, 2019; Geller & Curtis, 2011; Herbert et al, 2015; Keene et al, 2018; Petersilia, 2003; Roman & Travis, 2006). Among people released from prison, best estimates suggest that most exit to live with parents, nearly one third experience some form of housing instability, and about 10% experience homelessness in the year following release (Clark, 2016; Geller & Curtis, 2011; Roman & Travis, 2006; Steiner et al, 2015).…”

Section: Housing Circumstances Among the Justice-involvedmentioning

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The Effect of Housing Circumstances on Recidivism: Evidence From a Sample of People on Probation in San Francisco

Jacobs

Gottlieb

2020

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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The relationships between housing circumstances and recidivism are well established among people released from prison. Despite probation being far more common than prison or parole, we know little about living situations, homelessness, and residential instability among people on probation, and we know even less regarding how these housing circumstances may affect their risk of recidivism. Using a unique dataset of 2,453 people on probation and longitudinal analyses, this study finds that housing insecurity is common and is associated with an increased risk of recidivism among people on probation, above and beyond an array of other recidivism risk factors. Furthermore, we find housing effects are particularly strong for relatively low risk people and for relatively low-severity offenses (i.e., property crimes, minor crimes, and revocations). Interventions that increase housing access for people on probation may reduce recidivism, especially for those who are relatively low risk and low-level reoffending.

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Section: Housing Circumstances Among the Justice-involvedmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Effect of Housing Circumstances on Recidivism: Evidence From a Sample of People on Probation in San Francisco

Jacobs

Gottlieb

2020

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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“…Most studies of demographic representation on Craigslist have focused on discrimination by landlords (e.g. Carlsson and Eriksson, 2014; Evans et al., 2018; Hanson and Santas, 2014; Murchie and Pang, 2018) and the Fair Housing Act (e.g. Larkin, 2010; Oliveri, 2010).…”

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Online rental housing market representation and the digital reproduction of urban inequality

Boeing

2019

Environ Plan A

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As the rental housing market moves online, the Internet offers divergent possible futures: either the promise of more-equal access to information for previously marginalized homeseekers, or a reproduction of longstanding information inequalities. Biases in online listings' representativeness could impact different communities' access to housing search information, reinforcing traditional information segregation patterns through a digital divide. They could also circumscribe housing practitioners' and researchers' ability to draw broad market insights from listings to understand rental supply and affordability. This study examines millions of Craigslist rental listings across the US and finds that they spatially concentrate and over-represent whiter, wealthier, and better-educated communities. Other significant demographic differences exist in age, language, college enrollment, rent, poverty rate, and household size. Most cities' online housing markets are digitally segregated by race and class, and we discuss various implications for residential mobility, community legibility, gentrification, housing voucher utilization, and automated monitoring and analytics in the smart cities paradigm. While Craigslist contains valuable crowdsourced data to better understand affordability and available rental supply in real-time, it does not evenly represent all market segments. The Internet promises information democratization, and online listings can reduce housing search costs and increase choice sets. However, technology access/preferences and information channel segregation can concentrate such information-broadcasting benefits in already-advantaged communities, reproducing traditional inequalities and reinforcing residential sorting and segregation dynamics. Technology platforms like Craigslist construct new institutions with the power to shape spatial economies, human interactions, and planners' ability to monitor and respond to urban challenges. Prospective renters heterogeneously rely on a constellation of information sources to identify available units, including websites, newspapers, agents/brokers, property for-rent signs, and word of mouth. Krysan and Crowder (2017) theorize a two-stage search process in which homeseekers decide which neighborhoods to search and then choose which units within them to consider, emphasizing the importance of information supplies. Rae (2015) contends that the Internet has emerged as the first port of call for such searches, but online information also impacts the second stage by rendering individual units and in turn neighborhoods more legible and accessible to seekers. As the Internet constitutes an ever-increasing share of the rental housing information supply, different communities' access to information and capacity to find housing depend both on listings' representativeness and communities' abilities/interests in engaging with these platforms. This can be considered from the supplyside (i.e., the supply of information by landlords, managers, and brokers) and the demand-side (i.e...

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“…In fact, African American applicants had a slightly higher probability of a callback in two of the Nonlabor/More Customer Contact categories. Other recent experimental studies examining criminal record and racial stigma have also failed to find significant racial differences (see Decker et al, 2015; Evans, Blount-Hill, & Cubellis, 2018). Possible explanations for this result may be the use of correspondence versus in-person applications or shifting practices by employers.…”

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Misdemeanor Records and Employment Outcomes: An Experimental Study

Leasure

2018

Crime & Delinquency

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This study examined whether misdemeanor drug convictions impact entry-level hiring outcomes. An experimental correspondence study was used whereby fictitious resumes are sent to employers. Resumes were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: no criminal record, 1-year-old misdemeanor record, and a 1-year-old felony record. Resumes were also randomly assigned with a distinctively White or African American name. Job type was used as an additional predictor. Results indicate that a misdemeanor conviction significantly hinders hiring outcomes for both African American and White applicants. However, results did not show statistically significant differences in the outcome between races. These results should be utilized to better inform defendants, practitioners, and policy-makers on the negative impacts of low-level convictions.

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Examining housing discrimination across race, gender and felony history

Cited by 62 publications

References 37 publications

The Effect of Housing Circumstances on Recidivism: Evidence From a Sample of People on Probation in San Francisco

The Effect of Housing Circumstances on Recidivism: Evidence From a Sample of People on Probation in San Francisco

Online rental housing market representation and the digital reproduction of urban inequality

Misdemeanor Records and Employment Outcomes: An Experimental Study

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