Fair Housing Enforcement in the South and Non-South

Charles S. Bullock, Eric M. Wilk and Charles M. Lamb

Social Science Quarterly, 2015, vol. 96, issue 4, 941-954

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We compare outcomes in racial discrimination fair housing complaints processed by southern state and local civil rights agencies to those handled by state and local agencies outside the South and the federal agency, HUD (Department of Housing and Urban Development).

Based on data obtained directly from HUD, we rely on a fixed effects logistic regression model with cluster-correlated standard errors.

First, southern local agencies are significantly more likely to provide outcomes favorable to complainants in racial discrimination fair housing cases than are local agencies outside the South. Second, state and local agencies in the Deep South provide favorable outcomes to the same extent as their nonsouthern counterparts. Third, southern local agencies are more likely to provide favorable outcomes than is HUD, whereas southern state agencies provide favorable outcomes at roughly the same rate as HUD. Variations within the South partially explain these findings.

We find evidence of progressive changes in southern fair housing enforcement, although those changes occur in an uneven fashion depending on the state or locality.

Date: 2015
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