Pet-Friendly for Whom? An Analysis of Pet Fees in Texas Rental Housing.
Pet-Friendly for Whom? An Analysis of Pet Fees in Texas Rental Housing.
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DOI：
10.3389/fvets.2021.767149
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发表时间：
2021
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Graham TM
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文献类型：
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作者：
Applebaum JW;Horecka K;Loney L;Graham TM
以前的研究强调了低收入宠物主人在试图获得负担得起的出租房时经常面临的困难。进一步加剧这种住房差距的是，在“宠物友好型”租赁住房中，向宠物主人收取正常月租之外的费用。在这项研究中，我们从一个流行的在线租赁数据库中汇总了美国德克萨斯州人口最多的20个城市的出租房屋列表。我们配对的租赁清单与人口普查区的信息，从美国社区调查，以调查经济和种族/民族模式的空间分布的属性。我们发现，不太昂贵的宠物友好型房源更有可能在租金之上收取宠物费，而不是更昂贵的租赁单位。此外，当宠物费用负担被定义为人口普查区平均收入的函数时，低收入社区和有色人种社区比高收入社区和主要是白色社区更有可能支付不成比例的更高费用来饲养宠物。我们还发现了与宠物费用负担相关的空间不平等模式，通过城市收入不平等的度量。宠物租赁费的负担可能会导致住房不安全和伴侣动物放弃。我们讨论这些调查结果，因为它们涉及到住房的不平等，特别关注与宠物的边缘化和弱势群体。最后，我们提出了政策和实践建议。
Previous studies have underscored the difficulty low-income pet owners often face when attempting to secure affordable rental housing. Further exacerbating this housing disparity are fees charged on top of normal monthly rent to pet owners in “pet-friendly” rental housing. In this study, we aggregated rental housing listings from the twenty most populous cities in Texas, USA from a popular online rental database. We paired the rental listings with census tract information from the American Community Survey in order to investigate economic and racial/ethnic patterns in the spatial distribution of the properties. We find that less expensive pet-friendly listings were more likely to have pet fees charged on top of rent than rental units that were more expensive. Additionally, when pet fee burden was defined as a function of average income by census tract, low-income communities and communities of color were more likely than higher income and predominantly White communities to pay disproportionately higher fees to keep pets in their homes. We also find patterns of spatial inequalities related to pet fee burden by a metric of income inequality by city. The burden of pet rental fees may contribute to both housing insecurity and companion animal relinquishment. We discuss these findings as they relate to inequalities in housing, with particular attention to marginalized and disadvantaged people with pets. We conclude with recommendations for policy and practice.
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影响因子：
2.5
作者：
Garboden, Philip M. E.;Rosen, Eva
通讯作者：
Rosen, Eva
影响因子：
4.4
作者：
Desmond, Matthew
通讯作者：
Desmond, Matthew
影响因子：
2.7
作者：
Irvine, Leslie;Cilia, Laurent
通讯作者：
Cilia, Laurent
影响因子：
12.7
作者：
Cutt, Hayley;Giles-Corti, Billie;Bull, Fiona
通讯作者：
Bull, Fiona
DOI：
10.3390/ani10101869
发表时间：
2020-10-13
期刊：
Animals : an open access journal from MDPI
影响因子：
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作者：
Kerman N;Lem M;Witte M;Kim C;Rhoades H
通讯作者：
Rhoades H