The study of housing has a long history in sociology, but since the 1960s, it has been
relatively hidden in a number of sociological subfields and scattered across a range of …

Academics largely define gentrification based on changes in the class demographics of
neighborhood residents from predominately low-income to middle-class. This ignores that …

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva's acclaimed Racism without Racists examines in detail how Whites
talk, think, and account for the existence of racial inequality and makes clear that color-blind …

Beginning in the 1930s, neighborhood racial composition was an explicit determining factor
in the evaluation of US home values. This deliberate practice was outlawed in the 1960s …

For decades, it was taken as a given that an increased homeownership rate was a desirable
goal. But after the financial crises and Great Recession, in which roughly eight million …

We document the existence of a racial gap in realized housing returns that is an order of
magnitude larger than disparities arising from housing costs alone, and is driven almost …

The history of the US housing market is bound up in systemic, explicit racism. However, little
research has investigated whether racial inequality also persists in the contemporary …

What do you want for yourself in the next five, ten years? Do your plans involve marriage,
kids, a new job? These are the questions a real estate agent might ask in an attempt to …

This article leverages a unique data set, recently developed regression methods, and
qualitative interviews to investigate the multiple ways real estate agents produce housing …

Because homeownership continues to be a key mechanism underlying racial inequality in
America, recent developments that led to the foreclosure crisis bring to the forefront issues …