Housing Adequacy Gap for Minorities and Immigrants in the U.S.: Evidence from the 2009 American Housing Survey

Kusum Mundra () and Amarendra Sharma ()

No 8038, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Home adequacy for different groups in the U.S. has not been adequately studied. Using the data from the national level American Housing Survey for the year 2009and logit model, this paper finds that there is a significant adequacy difference for Blacks and Hispanics when compared to whites in the U.S. However, that is not the case for immigrants relative to the natives. We also find that then naturalization improves housing adequacy among immigrant homeowners, whereas, the female headed households have a significantly higher home adequacy than that of the male headed households. Similar to the homeownership findings, this paper highlights that the public policies should aim to narrow the home adequacy gap between whites and minorities and encourage naturalization to improve adequacy among immigrant homeowners.

Keywords: immigrants; U.S. residential real estate; housing adequacy gap structural adequacy; minorities; American Housing Survey; naturalized (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 R2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2014-03
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dcm, nep-mig and nep-ure
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Published - published in: Journal of Housing Research, 2015,24 (1), 2015, 55-72.

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