VUB/UGent researchers use a new method to assess discrimination in housing market more precisely and find 10% of brokers are willing to select tenants based on ethnicity
Tuesday, October 4, 2022 — Doctoral students in sociology Abel Ghekiere (VUB) and Louis Lippens (UGent) have developed a new method to examine real estate agents’ underlying reasons for discriminating against potential tenants. This method allows the researchers to examine the reactions of agents when they receive a discriminatory question from a landlord via email. ...
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