Nonexpected discrimination: the case of social housing in France

Abstract

The idea here is to bring to light eventual discrimination against non-European households. We show that these households, all else held constant, spend more time on the waiting lists. Appropriate decomposition techniques enable us to demonstrate that a nonnegligible portion of this gap could well be due to discrimination.

Forty years of immigrant segregation in France, 1968–2007. How different is the new immigration?

“…In particular, the accessibility of social housing to immigrants and the spatial distribution of social housing across and within urban agglomerations have been shown to influence the concentration of immigrants between and within cities (Bonnal et al, 2012;Verdugo, 2012).…”

International Migration and Regional Housing Markets: Evidence from France

“…Today, the social housing magnet theory does not seem to be empirically supported; on the contrary, there seems to be discrimination against non-European foreigners in the allocation of social housing. Bonnal, Boumahdi, and Favard (2012) show that non-European foreigners on housing lists have to wait significantly longer than others before being allocated a home despite the legal obligation to base social housing allocations solely on welfare criteria.…”

Citizen Outsider

“…Notes 15. For more on housing discrimination, see Bonnal et al (2012), Verdugo (2014), andHeath (2013) 4. Sarkozy is the child of a Hungarian immigrant father and a French mother.…”