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Discrimination against people with mental, physical or visual disabilities in the French rental housing market: field experiment

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  • Alexandre Flage
  • Julie Le Gallo

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We implement correspondence testing to detect and assess the extent of discrimination against people with disabilities in the French rental housing market. By sending 1,750 emails in a matched-pair procedure, we provide evidence of significant and extensive discrimination against blind people with a guide dog, individuals with mental disabilities, and individuals with motor impairments in the process of rented housing allocation. However, the primary cause of discrimination against blind individuals appears to stem from the presence of the guide dog, rather than the disability itself. Our results are also consistent with the presence of statistical discrimination (particularly based on financial means). We find that absolute discrimination against disabled applicants increases in accordance with the level of rent, while real estate agents discriminate significantly less against disabled applicants than private landlords.

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  • Alexandre Flage & Julie Le Gallo, 2025. "Discrimination against people with mental, physical or visual disabilities in the French rental housing market: field experiment," Housing Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 40(1), pages 116-138, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:chosxx:v:40:y:2025:i:1:p:116-138
    DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2023.2266412
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