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2 Overview of the 2000 Housing Discrimination Study
2 Overview of the 2000 Housing Discrimination Study
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The law determines discrimination in individual cases of real people; the HDS audit seeks to create a measure of discrimination by which the incidences of discrimination can be counted. While past HDS audits have measured some effects of discrimination for particular cities, the current audit will expand that effort and obtain more detail on where discrimination occurs within a city.
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STUDY DESIGN As noted in Chapter 1, the 2000 HDS audit involves 60 sites and is a multiphase study: Phase I, including 20 sites, began in 2000; Phase II began in 2001; and Phase III will begin in 2002. In Phase I, an attempt is being made to obtain national estimates of disparate treatment in home seeking among African American and Hispanic groups; these estimates will be used to measure changes in discrimination over time since the most recent HDS audit (1989)
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The first stage of the sampling frame, area probability sampling, involves selecting sites for the African American and Hispanic samples, with selection probabilities proportional to population size (using census data)
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Paired testing is therefore preferred because it does not count this potentially costly behavior. By exploiting the benefits of paired testing, the 2000 HDS can provide estimates of housing discrimination that are not obtainable using housing market data.
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Thus, for example, African American auditors may be discriminated against more often than African American home seekers in the housing market because testing does not allow for mitigating behavior. During his comments, Stephen Ross, Department of Economics, University of Connecticut, suggested that paired testing can clearly distinguish between disparate treatment and disparate impact discrimination and other possible biases that may exist in market data.
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The local test coordinator performs no treatment comparisons; only members of the HDS audit research team make an assessment of racially disparate treatment. As noted, Phase I includes 20 sites; among them are African American/ white sites, Hispanic/white sites, Asian American/white sites, and Ameri
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Researchers have not encountered this problem in the HDS to date. Researchers stated they believe they would be able to learn whether housing agents suspected a systemic audit because those performing field reconnaissance and local fair housing agencies would be made aware of this information.
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It was also noted that in many housing markets, real estate agents are now asking individuals to sign up with a buyer's broker before viewing any housing units. This practice poses an additional challenge for the audit structure.
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