caa a22 4500 465754317 CHVBK 20180323111843.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170327e19900601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02899931 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02899931 Galster George aut Racial steering by real estate agents: Mechanisms and motives [Elektronische Daten] [George Galster] Data from fair housing audits conducted in Cincinnati (1983-85) and Memphis (1985-87) are analyzed to discern whether and how racial steering occurs. The six real estate firms analyzed here engaged in some sort of steering during at least one-half of the audited transactions, on average. This steering did not limit the number of alternative areas shown to black auditors, nor their geographic concentration. Rarely were black auditors not shown dwellings in predominantly white areas, especially if they requested such. But of all the homes they saw, black auditors were shown significantly smaller fractions in predominantly white areas, and significantly larger fractions in mixed and predominantly black areas. These racial patterns persisted regardless of the geographic definition of area chosen: census block, census tract, school district, or community. In addition, blocks adjacent to the homes shown black auditors had higher percentages of black residents, on average, than those shown to white auditors. White auditors rarely were shown houses in racially mixed areas unless they requested them. Even then, after the requested home was shown the bulk of subsequent showings were located in predominantly white areas. This pattern of showings was buttressed by numerous favorable comments by agents about such predominantly white areas and school districts . . . comments that were rarely given to black auditors. The evidence was fully consistent with only one hypothesis about why real estate agents steer. They steer so as to perpetuate two segregated housing markets buffered by a zone of racially transitional neighborhoods, thereby maximizing housing turnover and agents' commissions. Springer, 1990 The Review of Black Political Economy Springer-Verlag 19/1(1990-06-01), 39-63 0034-6446 19:1<39 1990 19 12114 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02899931 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02899931 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Galster George aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Review of Black Political Economy Springer-Verlag 19/1(1990-06-01), 39-63 0034-6446 19:1<39 1990 19 12114 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer