Arbeitspapier

Housing Adequacy Gap for Minorities and Immigrants in the U.S.: Evidence from the 2009 American Housing Survey

Home adequacy for different groups in the U.S. has not been adequately studied. Using the data from the national level American Housing Survey for the year 2009and logit model, this paper finds that there is a significant adequacy difference for Blacks and Hispanics when compared to whites in the U.S. However, that is not the case for immigrants relative to the natives. We also find that then naturalization improves housing adequacy among immigrant homeowners, whereas, the female headed households have a significantly higher home adequacy than that of the male headed households. Similar to the homeownership findings, this paper highlights that the public policies should aim to narrow the home adequacy gap between whites and minorities and encourage naturalization to improve adequacy among immigrant homeowners.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 8038

Classification
Wirtschaft
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
Subject
housing adequacy gap structural adequacy
U.S. residential real estate
immigrants
minorities
American Housing Survey
naturalized

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Mundra, Kusum
Sharma, Amarendra
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(where)
Bonn
(when)
2014

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  • Arbeitspapier

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  • Mundra, Kusum
  • Sharma, Amarendra
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Time of origin

  • 2014

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