Black-led households are charged more for identical housing in the same neighborhood than their white counterparts and this rent premium increases as neighborhoods get whiter, according to a recent study.
Author Archives: Edgar Olsen
Edgar Olsen is a Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA. He has testified on low-income housing policy before Congressional committees seven times, has been an expert witness on the topic in two major class-action lawsuits, worked on the National Housing Policy Review that led to the U.S. housing voucher program, and was a visiting scholar at HUD during its Experimental Housing Allowance Program.