Suburban inequality is the focus of this double issue of RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation
Journal of the Social Sciences. This introduction addresses the limited related scholarship …

Neoliberal Housing Policy considers some of the most significant housing issues facing the
West today, including the increasing commodification of housing; the political economy …

Scholars conducting empirical research on US suburbs must develop their own definition of
suburbia. In this paper, we operationalize three suburban definitions commonly used in the …

During the last 50 years, a number of economic forces led to noteworthy changes in the
geography of poverty in the US. Employment decentralization and lack of affordable housing …

Over the past several decades, researchers have investigated segregation, differentiating
between central cities and suburbs. However, suburbs have become more differentiated …

Recent popular and scholarly work has drawn attention to the issue of shrinking cities. In
particular, a growing body of literature has focused on the impacts of population loss on …

Suburban revitalization efforts can remain ineffective when they do not adequately address
the historic harm done to minority, low-income communities via economic, housing, public …

Although spatial assimilation has often been defined as the process whereby a group attains
residential propinquity with majority members of a host society, we argue that for certain …

This article examines recent plans for US municipalities to use the state legal power of
eminent domain to forcibly acquire “underwater” mortgages (ie those with negative equity) …

The 2020 CARES Act provided mortgage relief to financially distressed borrowers whose
loans were insured by the US government. We used cumulative disadvantage theory to …