“We Go Totally Subjective”: Discretion, Discrimination, and Tenant Screening in a Landlord’s Market
“We Go Totally Subjective”: Discretion, Discrimination, and Tenant Screening in a Landlord’s Market
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“我们完全主观”：房东市场中的自由裁量权、歧视和租户筛选
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2020
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通讯作者：
Anna Reosti
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Anna Reosti
摘要本文探讨了当代租赁住房的政治经济学对使用反歧视法规范租户筛选的新努力所带来的挑战。我以华盛顿州西雅图的房东实践为例进行了研究。面对严重的住房危机，西雅图的政策制定者一直站在法律努力的最前沿，规范房东如何筛选和选择租房申请人。本案例研究从新的公平住房法规的目标和预期受益者的不同角度调查了租户筛选和选择实践，并对来自租赁住房行业的发言人或专家、独立房东和物业经理以及有犯罪、驱逐和/或信用记录受损的租户进行了46次深度访谈。我使用这些数据来研究房东的自由裁量决策和对监管的反应是如何受到他们运作的更广泛的法律、制度和经济背景的影响的。研究结果阐明了“房东市场”如何放大了作为房东-租客关系特征的权力不平衡，加剧了背景调查泛滥带来的住房获取问题，并挫败了旨在消除租房筛选相关障碍的新法律努力。
Abstract This article examines the challenges that the contemporary political economy of rental housing poses for new efforts to regulate tenant screening using antidiscrimination law. I draw on a case study of landlord practices in Seattle, Washington, where policy makers have been on the forefront of legal efforts to regulate how landlords screen and select rental applicants in the face of an acute housing crisis. The case study investigates tenant screening and selection practices from the divergent perspectives of the targets and intended beneficiaries of new fair housing regulations, using forty-six in-depth interviews with spokespersons or experts from the rental housing industry, independent landlords and property managers, and renters with criminal, eviction, and/or damaged credit histories. I use these data to examine how landlords’ discretionary decision-making and responses to regulation are shaped by the broader legal, institutional, and economic context in which they operate. The findings illuminate how a “landlord’s market” amplifies the power imbalance that is characteristic of landlord-tenant relations, exacerbates the housing access problems posed by the proliferation of background checks, and frustrates new legal efforts to dismantle screening-related barriers to rental housing.
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DOI：
10.37282/991819.20.42
发表时间：
2020
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Inference: International Review of Science
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作者：
Berent, Iris
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Berent, Iris