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This website provides supplementary information for the paper Sociodemographic and Spatial Variations in Craigslist Rental Housing Activity

You can download the R source code and data for this project from Github here

Contact Chris Hess at hesscl@uw.edu for more information about this report.

This page was last updated: 2018-03-13

Histogram of rental listings scraped per neighborhood (census tracts)

Total Population (ACS 2012-2016)

Prop. Persons below Federal Poverty Line (ACS 2012-2016)

Median HH Income (ACS 2012-2016)

Prop. Foreign-Born (ACS 2012-2016)

N Housing Units in Tract (ACS 2012-2016)

Prop. HU For Rent (ACS 2012-2016)

Prop. HU Built 2014 or Later (ACS 2012-2016)

Prop. HU Owner-Occupied (ACS 2012-2016)

Boxplot of Racial/Ethnic Compositions

Smoothed Fit of N Listings ~ Racial/Ethnic Composition

Actual versus Predicted

Goodness-of-Fit Statistics

Poisson Non-Spatial RE Model posterior distributions (with 95% intervals)

Poisson Spatial RE Model posterior distributions (with 95% intervals)

Poisson Non-Spatial RE Model — I.I.D. Random Effect

Poisson Spatial RE Model — I.I.D. Random Effect

Poisson Spatial RE Model — ICAR Spatial Effect

Poisson Non-Spatial RE Model — Median Fitted Values

Poisson Non-Spatial RE Model — 95% Interval

Poisson Spatial RE Model — Median Fitted Values

Poisson Spatial RE Model — 95% Interval