Abstract
One of the many forms that housing market discrimination can take is the practice of steering whereby old persons are recommended housing units but are steered away from predominantly young neighborhoods toward neighborhoods that are already integrated or are predominantly old. This paper finds that there is age steering in the Japanese rental housing market but that there is no rent differential between housing units that are recommended to old persons in old neighborhoods and those that are recommended to them in young neighborhoods. These features of the rental housing market explain age segregation in big Japanese cities.
