Panel:
Gentrification in the 21st Century
(Housing and Community Development)
Thursday, November 3, 2016: 10:00 AM-11:30 AM
Embassy (Washington Hilton)
*Names in bold indicate Presenter
Panel Organizers: Gerard Torrats-Espinosa, New York University
Panel Chairs: Katherine O'Regan, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Discussants: Lance Freeman, Columbia University and Jackelyn Hwang, Princeton University
The four articles in this panel explore the consequences of gentrification along multiple dimensions and in different urban contexts. Drawing on a unique large-scale consumer credit database, the first paper examines the consequences of gentrification on residents’ financial health in the city of Philadelphia from 2002 to 2014. Using ethnographic observations of Washington, DC’s Shaw/U Street neighborhood from 2009 to 2014, the second presenter investigates the social, economic, and political processes that unfold as the neighborhood transitions to a mixed-income, mixed-race community. By analyzing restricted administrative data on the Housing Choice Voucher program from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the third article examines how rapidly rising rents appear to be shaping patterns of residential mobility, spatial concentration, and neighborhood attainment of voucher holders in more than 250 metropolitan areas in the United States. The last paper investigates the extent to which low-income households have been pushed to the suburbs as rents have increased in New York City metropolitan area.
