The Unequal Availability of Rental Housing Information Across Neighborhoods
The Unequal Availability of Rental Housing Information Across Neighborhoods
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DOI：
10.1215/00703370-9357518
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发表时间：
2021-08-01
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影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Kuk, John
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作者：
Besbris, Max;Schachter, Ariela;Kuk, John
随着越来越多的城市居民通过在线搜索工具找到他们的住房，最近的研究已经从理论上证明了在线信息改变和平衡住房搜索过程的潜力。然而，人们对网上提供的租房信息知之甚少。使用语料库的数以百万计的地理编码Craigslist广告租赁房屋在美国50个最大的大都市统计区合并人口普查tractlevel数据从美国社区调查，我们确定和描述的信息类型通常包括在列表中的不同类型的社区。我们发现，在在线住房市场，租房者接触到的信息类型完全不同，这取决于他们搜索的社区的民族和社会经济构成。
As more urban residents find their housing through online search tools, recent research has theorized the potential for online information to transform and equalize the housing search process. Yet, very little is known about what rental housing information is available online. Using a corpus of millions of geocoded Craigslist advertisements for rental housing across the 50 largest metropolitan statistical areas in the United States merged with census tractlevel data from the American Community Survey, we identify and describe the types of information commonly included in listings across different types of neighborhoods. We find that in the online housing market, renters are exposed to fundamentally different types of information depending on the ethnoracial and socioeconomic makeup of the neighborhoods where they are searching.