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Cityscape: Volume 17 Number 3 | Guest Editor's Introduction

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Housing Discrimination Today

Volume 17, Number 3

Editors
Mark D. Shroder
Michelle P. Matuga

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Discrimination as an Object of Measurement

Margery Austin Turner
Urban Institute

Judson James
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

The views expressed in this introduction are those of the guest editors and do not represent the official positions or policies of the Urban Institute, the Office of Policy Development and Research, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, or the U.S. government.

 

For nearly four decades, the Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has sponsored large-scale, paired-testing studies to rigorously measure the incidence and forms of housing discrimination in metropolitan areas nationwide. As we approach the 50th anniversary of passage of federal fair housing protections, this issue of Cityscape offers a comprehensive review of HUD’s paired-testing research, which first focused exclusively on discrimination against African-American homeseekers, and, most recently, expanded to measure discrimination based on disability, sexual preference and gender identity, family composition, and housing voucher recipiency.


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