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Discrimination on the Housing Market: A Growing Problem in Austria
A recent SORA study conducted on behalf of the Ombud for Equal Treatment highlights a serious problem in Austria's real estate market: racism and discrimination. People with foreign-sounding names or accents have significantly fewer chances of being invited to view an apartment compared to people with typical Austrian names.
The result of a study shows alarming racist tendencies in the domestic housing market, where apartment seekers with foreign-sounding names lose out to those with domestic names. / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons / Simon Legner (User:simon04), CC BY-SA 4.0
The study exposes serious discrimination based on ethnicity. In a test, 157 housing advertisements in various Austrian cities were contacted by two test persons with fictitious biographies. While "Muhammad Asif" received an invitation for a viewing appointment only in 50% of the cases, "Michael Gruber" received an appointment in every call. This was even though both presented themselves…
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