Discrimination in Metropolitan Housing Markets: Phase 2 - Asians and Pacific Islanders

For convenience, the report is available for download in PDF format. Your options for downloading are as follows:

1. Executive Summary Only (.pdf 212KB)

The Executive Summary provides a general overview of the major findings and the methods used to develop the estimates.


2. The Full Phase 2 Report with Annexes (.pdf 2.83MB)

This is the full report, including the Executive Summary.

• Chapter 1 provides a description of the paired testing methodology generally along with an overview of the scope of the study.
  
• Chapter 2 presents the methodology implemented in Phase II of HDS2000, including the sample of metropolitan areas in which tests were conducted, the procedures used to draw a sample of available housing units in each of these metropolitan areas, the paired testing protocols implemented for both rental and sales housing, and the statistical procedures used to estimate the incidence of adverse treatment.
  
• Chapter 3 presents current national estimates of adverse treatment against Asian and Pacific Homebuyers as well as state-level estimates for California.
  
• Chapter 4 discusses potential variations in adverse treatment against Asians and Pacific Islanders by skin color, national origin, and advertising source.
  
• Annexes. A series of annexes accompany the report, including national estimates without Honolulu and comparison of Asian and Pacific Islander results with black and Hispanic results for a common sample of sites.