The only difference between them was that some of them had German names, while the others had Turkish, Arabic, Polish or Italian names. The results showed that people with Turkish or Arabic names have a particularly hard time of it on the rental market. In the competitive rental markets in Munich and Frankfurt, people with foreign names were most likely to face discrimination. In Leipzig and Magdeburg on the other hand, flat-hunters with foreign names were discriminated against in less than one in every five cases. The study also showed that private landlords are more likely to reject a someone with a foreign-sounding name than commercial landlords.

Source: The Local June 22, 2017 10:18 UTC