U.S. Landlords are more willing to rent to Asians and whites

As more and more Americans began to flock to renting, leasing threshold gradually increased. New research shows that landlords are more willing to provide rental opportunities for Asian Americans and whites.

According to Canada, " Montreal Gazette " (Montreal Gazette) 7 reported Tuesday in the United States rent, if the tenant to provide network online application form, names a column that says " Kevin Lee (Kevin Li, transliteration )," then the African American and Latino tenants than tenants easier to get the landlord's favor.

The latest issue of " Journal of Applied Social Psychology " (Journal of Applied Social Psychology) published studies have shown that the process of renting a network application, the white female and Asian women are most likely to get a positive reply to the landlord, followed by Asian men. For more information, please read the latest renting news.

In the survey, the researchers to the communities online rental information released about 1600 to submit an online request for landlords, tenants, rental information are in compliance with the conditions, but the last name pointing to different races, the researchers used the surname is the U.S. Census Bureau (US Census Bureau) published the most common names of various ethnic groups.

The findings show that from the perspective of gender, compared to men, women are more willing to landlord tenant open the door, the landlord for the tenant's reply female ratio was 40.8%, only 27.1% of the men. For women, the tenant, the white women and Asian women landlord tenant get back the highest proportion was 67.3% and 60.8%. Latino and African American female tenant surname get back ratio is 43.1% and 41.2%.

For men the tenant, it has an Asian male surnames landlord tenant get a lot of positive response, reply ratio of 45.2%. Followed by Latinos and whites tenant, reply rates were 34.7% and 34%, the proportion of African American male tenants reply only 16%.

The study author Allyson J. Weseley that white men always gives a big voice and love the lively impression, but life, some aggressive, while Asian men is giving polite and cautious impression. Wesley is a behavioral science teacher, get Princeton University (Princeton University), Harvard University, Harvard and University) and Columbia University (Columbia University) degree.

Another one of the study's author Michelle Feldman that renting discrimination still exists, even if unconscious. Although this unconscious behavior only with the last name on the application form, but it will affect the tenant's rental opportunities.