As more urban residents find their housing through online search tools, recent research has theorized the potential for online information to transform and equalize the housing search process. Yet, very little is known about what rental housing information is available online. Using a corpus of millions of geocoded Craigslist advertisements for rental housing across the 50 largest metropolitan statistical areas in the United States merged with census tract-level data from the American Community Survey, we identify and describe the types of information commonly included in listings across different types of neighborhoods. We find that in the online housing market, renters are exposed to fundamentally different types of information depending on the ethnoracial and socioeconomic makeup of the neighborhoods where they are searching.

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各社区出租房屋信息的不均等。

随着越来越多的城市居民通过在线搜索工具找到自己的住房，最近的研究表明，在线信息有可能改变和平衡住房搜索过程。然而，人们对在线提供哪些出租房屋信息知之甚少。我们使用美国 50 个最大城市统计区的数百万个地理编码的 Craigslist 出租房屋广告语料库，并结合美国社区调查的人口普查区域数据，识别并描述通常包含在不同房源列表中的信息类型街区类型。我们发现，在在线住房市场中，租房者会接触到根本不同类型的信息，具体取决于他们所搜索社区的种族和社会经济构成。