Housing Inequality in the United States: Explaining the White-Minority Disparities in Homeownership

Impact of Remittance Behaviour on Immigrant Homeownership Trajectories: An Analysis of the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants in Canada from 2001 to 2005

“…Immigrants continue to engage with their origin areas in various ways including the sending of substantial financial resources to their origin countries in the form of remittances and engagement in housing investments in origin areas among other activities (Diko and Tipple 1992;Osili 2004;Mazzucato 2005;De Haas 2006;Grant 2007;Asiedu and Arku 2009;Smith and Mazzucato 2009;Obeng-Odoom 2010). Thus understanding the impact of transnational activities on housing trajectories is important especially in the light of recent discussions of a decline in immigrant homeownership trends in Canada and the USA in the last two decades (Myers et al 1998;Haan 2005Haan , 2007DeSilva and Elmelech 2012). This study fills this gap by using the theoretical framework discussed above to answer the question: is there a relationship between transnational behaviour and homeownership status over time among recent immigrants in Canada?…”

Hurdles or walls? Nativity, citizenship, legal status and Latino homeownership in Los Angeles

“…Alba and Logan, 1992). For instance, immigrants with more years of U.S. experience and/or English language ability are more likely to be homeowners than more recently arrived or non-English speaking immigrants (e.g., Alba and Logan, 1992;Memken and Canabal, 1994;Krivo, 1995;Painter et al, 2001;Borjas, 2002;Elmelech, 2004;McConnell and Marcelli, 2007;Jones, 2011;DeSilva and Elmelech, 2012). Many immigrants exhibit a sustained orientation to the origin country, such as sending money to support immediate family members remaining behind (e.g., Massey et al, 1987;Menjívar, 2000;Sana, 2005).…”

“…An indicator tapping into neighborhood collective efficacy is included in the analyses. 9 Contextual characteristics connected with the likelihood of homeownership in previous work include racial/ethnic/nativity composition (Borjas, 2002;Burr et al, 2011;DeSilva and Elmelech, 2012) and housing prices/housing costs (Krivo, 1995;Wong, 2002;Dawkins, 2005;Burr et al, 2011;Yu and Haan, 2012). Two census-tract level indicators are entered in the analyses: percent Latino and median home prices.…”

“…Recent mobility is included, as it may be connected with the outcome. Prior research indicates homeownership differences among Latinos by country/region of origin or ancestry (e.g., Krivo, 1995;Hao, 2007;Jones, 2011;DeSilva and Elmelech, 2012); the analyses include indicators for whether the respondent is Mexican, Central American, and other Latino to control for variation based on origin/ancestry and other unmeasured differences.…”

An Idea on Housing Vouchers Policy Making: Based on New-Type Urbanization

“…For instance, in the United States, as the homeownership rate reached its highest ever level of 69 % in 2004, the distribution of homeownership remain uneven along racial and ethnic lines. Less than half of black and Hispanic households and approximately 60 % of Asian households owned a home, compared to more than 70 % of white households [8]. When we shift our attention to other countries, like Britain, France, scholars often assess housing inequality on racial or ethnic identity [9,10].…”