Recent events have brought attention to the millions of Americans who struggle to find and
pay for housing. Housing has historically been of interest to sociologists, but it has long been …

Contemporary sociology offers competing images of the breadth and consequences of
gentrification. One subset presents gentrification as a nearly unstoppable force that plays a …

Displacement has become one of the most prominent themes in contemporary geographical
debates, used to describe processes of dispossession and forced eviction at a diverse range …

Scholarly interest in the relationship between public investments and residential
displacement dates back to the 1970s and the aftermath of displacement related to urban …

Shaking Up the City critically examines many of the concepts and categories within
mainstream urban studies that serve dubious policy agendas. Through a combination of …

From St. Louis to New Orleans, from Baltimore to Oklahoma City, there are poor and minority
neighborhoods so beset by pollution that just living in them can be hazardous to your health …

Gentrification has provoked considerable controversy surrounding its effects on residential
displacement. Using a unique individual-level, longitudinal data set, this study examines …

We explore the impact of rising incomes at the top of the distribution on spatial sorting
patterns within large US cities. We develop and quantify a spatial model of a city with …

We study the local effects of new market-rate housing in low-income areas using microdata
on large apartment buildings, rents, and migration. New buildings decrease rents in nearby …

While certain US cities are still depopulating, others have experienced a reversal of
aggregate out-migration patterns. Some scholars, politicians and real estate boosters …