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Title: The Spatial Dynamics of Stratification: Metropolitan Context, Population Redistribution and Black and Hispanic Homeownership

Citation Type: Conference Paper

Publication Year: 2009

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Abstract: Racial and ethnic inequality in homeownership remains wide, even net of variation inhousehold sociodemographic characteristics. This paper investigates the role of contextual forcesin structuring disparate access to homeownership. Specifically, we combine household andmetropolitan level census data to assess the impact of metropolitan housing stock, minoritycomposition, and residential segregation on black and Hispanic homeownership. The measure ofminority composition combines both the size and growth of the co-ethnic population to assess theimpact on homeownership inequality of recent trends in population redistribution, particularly theincrease in black migration to the South and dispersal of Hispanics outside of traditional receivingareas. Results indicate remarkable similarity between blacks and Hispanics with respect to thespatial and contextual influences on homeownership. For both groups, homeownership is higherand inequality with whites smaller in metropolitan areas with an established co-ethnic base, andthose in which their group is less residentially segregated.

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Authors: Flippen, Chenoa A.

Conference Name: Population Association of America

Publisher Location: Detroit, MI

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Other, Race and Ethnicity

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