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Gary Painter
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Immigrants and housing market in mid-size metropolitan areas
The recent trend of immigrants arriving in mid-size metropolitan areas has received growing attention in the literature. Not only are immigrants changing the demographic makeup and the local housing markets of the new destinations, but the context of reception in these areas may have significant impacts on the prospect of immigrant assimilation. In order to assess the success of immigrants in mid-sized metropolitan areas, as measured by homeownership and overcrowding, this study examines a spectrum of 60 metropolitan areas that have different sizes of immigrant population and experienced different levels of immigrant growth. Using data from the 2000 decennial census and the 2005 ACS microdata, we find that recent immigrants are less successful in achieving homeownership and more likely to live in overcrowded conditions than native-born whites of non-Hispanic origin. In contrast to the work on large metropolitan areas, Asian immigrants to these mid-size metropolitan areas are less likely to be a homeowner than Latino immigrants. Immigrants tend to be more successful in housing markets that have larger concentrations of immigrants, suggesting that networks may matter. Finally, even though households living in the rustbelt are more likely to be homeowners, immigrants are more likely to be homeowners in the Sunbelt and more likely to live in overcrowded conditions in the Rustbelt that native born households.
Gary Painter is an Associate Professor in the School of Policy, Planning, and Development at the University of Southern California. Professor Painter's research interests focuses on housing, urban economics, and education policy. His most recent work has been on focused on the determinants of immigrant success in housing and labor markets. He has published articles in journals such as the Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Urban Economics, Urban Studies, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Real Estate Economics, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Housing Policy Debate, and Journal of Housing Economics.
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