Race, Immigrant Status, and Housing Tenure Choice

Gary Painter, Stuart Gabriel and Dowell Myers

No 8660, Working Paper from USC Lusk Center for Real Estate

Abstract: This paper applies Census microdata from 1980 and 1990 to assess the determinants of housing tenure choice among racial and ethnic groups in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. Like previous research, our results indicate that endowment differences (income, education, andimmigrant status) largely explain the homeownership gap between Latinos and whites. Incontrast to previous work, we find that Asians are as likely to choose homeownership as are whites, and that status as an immigrant did not portend lower homeownership rates among Asians. However, the endowment-adjusted homeownership choice differential between whites and blacks remains sizable; further, that gap more than doubled between 1980 and 1990, to a full 11 percentage points.

Keywords: Housing Tenure Choice; Race; Immigrant Status; Homeownership (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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