Jackelyn Hwang
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Hwang's research focuses on urban sociology; race and ethnicity; inequality; and immigration. Overarching themes in Hwang's writings include gentrification; segregation; racial stratification; and housing policy in U.S. cities. Hwang's recent projects focus on the causes and consequences of gentrification and developing measures of visible neighborhood conditions. Hwang is the Director of the Changing Cities Research Lab and partners with various organizations; including the City of Oakland; the Federal Reserve Banks of Philadelphia and San Francisco; and the Urban Displacement Project.
Contributions
Rent Control’s Expansion and the Need for Local Control
No Jargon Podcast
In the News
Publications
Draws on a unique large-scale consumer credit database to examine the mobility patterns of residents in gentrifying neighborhoods in the city of Philadelphia from 2002 to 2014. Results show that vulnerable residents (low-score, longer-term residents, or residents without mortgages) in gentrifying neighborhoods are no more likely to move out of their neighborhoods, but when they do move, they are more likely to move to lower-income neighborhoods and neighborhoods with lower values on quality-of-life indicators.
Documents how gentrifiers and non-gentrifiers socially construct their changing neighborhood in distinct and unequal ways. Discusses the gentrifiers’ neighborhood identity and boundaries excluded non-gentrifiers, and the non-gentrifiers’ socially constructed neighborhood was eventually displaced, having implications for the reproduction of inequality as neighborhoods change.
Demonstrates that the influx of Asians, and, under certain conditions, Hispanics, predict early gentrification in the late twentieth century. Discusses how low-income, predominantly black neighborhoods and neighborhoods that became Asian and Hispanic enclaves remained ungentrified despite the growth of gentrification. Results suggest that the rise of immigration after 1965 brought pioneers to many low-income central-city neighborhoods, spurring gentrification in some neighborhoods and forming ethnic enclaves in others.
Demonstrates how residents in predominantly minority neighborhoods in highly segregated metropolitan areas were more likely to receive subprime loans in the recent housing crisis compared to minority neighborhoods in less segregated metropolitan areas. Reflects the high degree of spatially concentrated subprime loans in minority areas in highly segregated metropolitan contexts.