Likelihood of a Housing Purchase and Neighborhood Preferences

This study allowed potential white home buyers to indicate preferences regarding neighborhood location and the racial composition of a neighborhood from a context-free perspective. A vignette analysis was used to obtain the data. The information was then compared with findings from previous work in the same field. The results show that, by itself, location may not be a factor which affects consideration of buying a house. This supports most previous works studying racial composition. In regards to white male subjects, the greater the percentage of same-race neighbors, the greater the likelihood that they will consider buying. For white females, the results are more ambiguous. Neighborhoods with 90 percent or more same-race or less than 50 percent same-race are seen as equally preferable and receive similar consideration ratings. Females may be less likely to consider neighborhoods with 50 to 89 percent same-race as subject

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• Taking Apart the American Dream

  Open Access•Anne B Shlay•Urban Studies•1986

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