Fair Housing Center’s Complaint Data Featured in New Research Article
On December 13, 2020, Professor Roshanak Mehdipanah, of the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health, and several other authors, including the Fair Housing Center’s executive director Steve Tomkowiak, published an article entitled Residential Racial and Socioeconomic Segregation as Predictors of Housing Discrimination in Detroit Metropolitan Area
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The article is the result of a multi-year partnership between the Center and Professor Mehdipanah, who analyzed the Center’s housing discrimination intake data for the ten-year period (2008 to 2017) in order to test a set of questions around the demographics of housing discrimination. Specifically, Professor Mehdipanah’s article found fewer complaints arose from Metropolitan Detroit neighborhoods with larger numbers of non-Hispanic Whites, homeowners, or higher median income levels as compared to neighborhoods with fewer of those characteristics. These findings run counter to some perceptions that more discrimination occurs in areas of gentrification or increasing incomes. The article also points to the fact that low-income renters of color experience the vast majority of housing discrimination.
The Fair Housing Center looks forward to continuing partnerships with researchers like Professor Mehdipanah who bring high levels of data-driven knowledge and analysis to the fair housing movement.
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