Davenport:

Credit Employment Housing Total
Race Familial Status
Tests Conducted 3 3 7 46 59
Different Treatment 1 0 3 5 9

Credit:

The testers met with the same staff person. The African American tester was offered a brochure on checking accounts. The white tester was not offered a brochure.

 

Housing:

Test 1

The testers met with different staff members. The white tester was offered a business card and the following printed material: Standards for Admissions, Tenant Selections Policy, Application Form. The African American tester was not offered any printed material.

 

Test 2

The testers met with the same staff person. The African American tester was asked for his ID before being shown a unit. The white tester was not asked for his ID.

 

Test 3

The testers met with the same staff person. Initially both testers were told that there were no units available and the earliest the complex would have one is June 22. The staff person later told the white tester, "Maybe the very earliest is June 17th". Towards the end of the white tester's visit she offered him her business card which she did not offer to the African American tester. She told the white tester, "I'll give you my card, too, if you want to call when it gets closer." "This one will be vacant on the 6th of June so if you're, you know, but right now (she gestured that they had nothing)".

 

Familial Status:

Test 1

The tester posed as a single parent with two children. The manager told the tester there was a policy of one child per bedroom. Therefore she would not be allowed to rent a two bedroom apartment.

 

Test 2

The tester posed as a single parent with a child. The manager told the tester she did not think the one bedroom apartment would be big enough. A second test was conducted. In that test, the manager did not tell a married couple (with no children) that the apartment was too small for them.

 

Test 3

The owner of a two bedroom apartment advertised, "We prefer no children."

 

Test 4

The tester posed as a single parent with a child. The manager told the tester there was a policy of not allowing children in the one bedroom apartments therefore she would not be allowed to rent a one bedroom apartment.

 

Test 5

The tester posed as a single parent with a child. The manager told the tester the apartment was too small for herself and her child. A second test was conducted. In that test, the manager did not tell a married couple (with no children) that the apartment was too small for them.

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