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Title: The Housing Market Impact of State-Level Anti-Discrimination Laws, 1960-1970

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Publication Year: 2004

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Abstract: This paper measures the housing market impact of state-level anti-discrimination laws in the 1960susing household-level and census-tract data. State-level fair-housing laws attempted to bardiscrimination on the basis of race, religion, and national origin in the sale, rental, and financing ofhousing, and they were the direct antecedents of the federal Fair Housing Act of 1968. Their influence on the housing market outcomes of African Americans has not been assessed in previouswork by economists, but policy variation across states during the 1960s provides an opportunity to pursue such estimates. During the 1960s, blacks housing market outcomes improved relative to whites, and the proportion of exclusively white census tracts declined markedly. But I find little evidence that the fairhousing laws contributed to those changes. Rather, the bulk of the evidence indicates that the laws effects on blacks housing market outcomes, on residential segregation, and on the value of property in predominantly nonwhite neighborhoods were negligible.

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Authors: Collins, William J.

Periodical (Full): Journal of Urban Economics

Issue: 3

Volume: 55

Pages: 534-564

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Housing and Segregation, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Race and Ethnicity

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