Published: 2020 | Kasey Zapatka, Brenden Beck | Urban Studies Abstract Consumption-side theorists of gentrification examine the flow of middle-class White people into previously working-class neighbourhoods and argue that their demand for housing stimulates gentrification. In contrast, production-side theorists emphasise…
Our Homes, Our Future: How Rent Control Can Build Stable, Healthy Communities
Published: 2019 | PolicyLink Abstract Amid the worst renter crisis in a generation, it is time for policymakers to respond to the call for rent control to protect tenants from skyrocketing rents and displacement. Leveraging this powerful yet underutilized tool…
New rail transit stations and the out-migration of low-income residents
Published: 2019 | Elizabeth Delmelle, Isabelle Nilsson | Urban Studies Abstract This article tests the hypothesis that low-income residents disproportionately move out of neighbourhoods in close proximity to new rail transit stations. This transit-induced gentrification scenario posits that the development…
Measuring and mapping displacement: The problem of quantification in the battle against gentrification
Published: 2019 | Sue Easton, Loretta Lees, Phil Hubbard, Nicholas Tate | Urban Studies Abstract Debates concerning residential population displacement in the context of gentrification remain vociferous, but are hampered by a lack of empirical evidence of the extent of…
Does Gentrification Displace Poor Children? New Evidence from New York City Medicaid Data
Published: 2019 | Kacie Dragan, Ingrid Ellen, Sherry A. Glied | National Bureau of Economic Research Abstract The pace of gentrification has accelerated in cities across the country since 2000, and many observers fear it is displacing low-income populations from…
Does Luxury Housing Construction Increase Nearby Rents?
Published: 2018 | Evan Mast | Upjohn Institute for Employeement Research Abstract A major obstacle to new housing construction in gentrifying neighborhoods is the fear that new units will induce additional housing demand, increasing local rents and fueling further gentrification.…
Developing a New Methodology for Analyzing Potential Displacement
Published: 2017 | Karen Chapple, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Paul Waddell, Daniel Chatman, Paul Ong | The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Abstract In 2008, California passed Senate Bill 375, requiring metropolitan planning organizations to develop Sustainable Communities Strategies as…
Displacement and gentrification in England and Wales: A quasi-experimental approach
Published: 2015 | Lance Freeman, Adele Cassola, Tiancheng Cai | Urban Studies Abstract Using event history methods we examine the relationship between residential mobility and gentrification in England and Wales. While our models of residential mobility conform to the life-cycle…
The New Exclusionary Zoning
Published: 2014 | John Mangin | Stanford Law and Policy Review Abstract If low-income families can’t afford the suburbs and the cities, where should they go? For the first time in American history, it makes sense to talk about whole…