AAAS: "The price of housing discrimination." Limitations on housing opportunities caused by racial discrimination in American rental markets impose damages upon Black + Hispanic rentors equal to 3 to 5% of their annual income. "Christensen and Timmins deployed a bot to scour online apartment listings and send 18,000 inquiries [to] about 6000 apartments in five major metro regions, varying the names of the “apartment seeker” to suggest different racial identities." Names implying non-white identities had approximately an 8% lower likelihood of receiving a response, "particularly for neighborhoods with more white residents, higher rental demand, stronger schools, more cafés, fewer murders, and less toxic air quality." Three to five percent is a lot. And institutional racism still exists, contrary to the misinformation + disinformation purveyed by certain media + political figures. We need to keep working on the great American experiment in democracy. [ILLUSTRATION: MICHAEL GLENWOOD GIBBS/ISPOT STOCK]   #discriminationlaw   #racisminamerica   #disinformation