NYU Furman Center Spring Speaker Series: Eva Rosen and Philip Garboden

Please join the NYU Furman Center for a lunchtime presentation:

Racial Discrimination in Housing: How Landlords Use Algorithms and Home Visits to Screen Tenants

with

Eva Rosen

Associate Professor
Georgetown University, McCourt School of Public Policy

and

Philip Garboden

Hawai`i Community Reinvestment Corporation (HCRC) Professor in Affordable Housing Economics, Policy, and Planning
The University of Hawai?i at M?noa

Monday, April 10th from 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. ET

Location: Furman Hall, Room 334
245 Sullivan St, New York, NY 10012

Please note that in-person seating is limited. A light lunch will be served.
There is an option to join remotely.

Please register using this link.

An extensive literature documents racial discrimination in housing, focusing on its prevalence and effect on non-white populations. This article studies how such discrimination operates, and the intermediaries who engage in it: landlords. Using interviews and observations with 157 landlords in four cities, the authors ask: how do landlords construct their tenants’ race within racially segmented housing markets, and how does this factor into their screening processes? Rosen and Garboden find that landlords distinguish between tenants based on the degree to which their behavior conforms to insidious cultural narratives at the intersection of race, gender, and class. Examining landlords’ screening practices offers insight into the role housing plays in how racism continues to shape life outcomes—both explicitly through overt racial bias, and increasingly more covertly, through algorithmic automation and digital technologies. Read the paper here.

About the Presenters: Eva Rosen is an Associate Professor at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy. She uses ethnography, qualitative, and mixed methods to study poverty, racial inequality, and American housing policy in the urban context. In 2022-2023 she is a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York. Rosen received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in Sociology and Social Policy. Her first book, The Voucher Promise, about housing insecurity and housing vouchers was published by Princeton University Press in July 2020, and is the winner of the Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Outstanding Book Award from the American Sociological Association and the Paul Davidoff Book Award from the ACSP. Rosen is a member of the Scholar Strategy Network. In 2018 she was recognized as one of APPAM’s outstanding early career scholars and received the 40 for 40 fellowship.

Philip Garboden is the Hawai`i Community Reinvestment Corporation (HCRC) Professor in Affordable Housing Economics, Policy, and Planning at the University of Hawai?i at M?noa with a primary appointment in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology, a Masters in Public Policy, and an MSE in Applied Math and Statistics, all from Johns Hopkins University. In 2022-2023 he is a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York. His primary research agenda looks at how supply side actors – landlords, developers, and property managers – respond to state, local, and federal housing policy in ways that exacerbate the structural marginalization of low-income and non-white communities. In 2018 he was recognized as one of APPAM’s outstanding early career scholars and received the 40 for 40 fellowship.

This event is open to members of the NYU community. Please register by clicking this RSVP link.