Neighborhoods, Race, and the Twenty-first-century Housing Appraisal Industry

@article{Howell2018NeighborhoodsRA,
  title={Neighborhoods, Race, and the Twenty-first-century Housing Appraisal Industry},
  author={Junia Howell and Elizabeth Korver‐Glenn},
  journal={Sociology of Race and Ethnicity},
  year={2018},
  volume={4},
  pages={473 - 490},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:158568139}
}
The history of the U.S. housing market is bound up in systemic, explicit racism. However, little research has investigated whether racial inequality also persists in the contemporary appraisal industry and, if present, how it happens. The present article addresses this gap by centering the appraisal industry as a key housing market player in the reproduction of racial inequality. Using a census of all single-family tax-appraised homes in Harris County (Houston), Texas, the authors examine the… 
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