Following the Great Recession, homeownership rates declined precipitously, raising concerns for the stability and well–being of neighborhoods. While many studies document shifts in household constraints, this article draws from foreclosure records from 2006 to 2011, subsequent transactions, tax exemption filings, and maintenance data in Boston, Massachusetts to show how the foreclosure crisis altered the landscape of ownership and unfolded differentially across hard–hit neighborhoods.

Historians of US cities in the Gilded Age have treated children's street work as a boys' domain, but many girls worked in the streets as well. Drawing on the case records of the Philadelphia Society to Protect Children from Cruelty, this article focuses on Jewish girl street peddlers.

In the United States, the residential segregation of Latinos from whites has persisted but has fallen between Latinos and blacks. Demographers offer the size of the Latino population that is undocumented as one potential explanation for these patterns.

Using a 1994 law change, we exploit quasi-experimental variation in the assignment of rent control in San Francisco to study its impacts on tenants and landlords.

Steadily rising housing rents in many of the United States’ large, productive cities have brought the issue of affordable housing to the forefront of the policy debate and reignited the discussion over expanding or enacting rent control provisions.

We nonparametrically estimate spillovers of properties financed by the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) onto neighborhood residents by developing a new difference-in differences style estimator.

The authors estimate racial/ethnic achievement gaps in several hundred metropolitan areas and several thousand school districts in the United States using the results of roughly 200 million standardized math and English language arts (ELA) tests administered to public school students from 2009 to 2013.

Research over the past decade suggests that racial segregation appears to have the largest implications for students’ achievement when linked to racial differences in exposure to school poverty.

The present paper uses a rich dataset based on naturally‐occurring lotteries for 68 new small non‐selective high schools in New York City, which we refer to as small schools of choice (SSCs), to address two related questions: () What high school features are promising levers for increasing graduation rates for disadvantaged students?

Cities officials are increasingly interested in understanding spatial and temporal energy patterns of the built environment to facilitate their city’s transition to a low-carbon future.

Academics, criminal justice professionals, and news outlets have warned that gang-associated youth use social media to taunt rivals and trade insults in ways that cause offline retaliation.

The ejido is an institution of communal land tenure and governance administered by the Mexican government.

Research on how neighborhood racial composition affects where gentrification unfolds yields mixed conclusions, but these studies either capture broad national trends or highly segregated cities.

Drawing from sociological theory and research on residential mobility and neighborhood stratification, which primarily explain urban decline and persistent segregation, the authors propose a framework for examining residential displacement in the context of gentrification.

This study examines patterns and relations between gentrification and urban schooling across U.S. cities using longitudinal data from 2000 to 2014.

Research in the neighborhood effects tradition has primarily concerned itself with understanding the consequences of growing up in high-poverty neighborhoods.

This study drew data from a randomized trial of a statewide prekindergarten program in Tennessee and presents new evidence on the impacts of preK on third-grade achievement using administrative data on children's neighborhood environments.

Research over the past decade suggests that racial segregation appears to have the largest implications for students’ achievement when linked to racial differences in exposure to school poverty.

This study examines the effects of gentrification on exclusionary punishment in urban schools across the United States.

Urban scholars increasingly contend that local police departments play a central role in facilitating neighbourhood change. Recent critics warn that 'order maintenance' policing and other low-level law enforcement tactics are deployed in gentrifying areas to displace 'disorderly' populations.

Amid the growing affordable housing crisis and widespread gentrification over the last decade, people have been moving less than before and increasingly live in shared and often crowded households across the U.S. Crowded housing has various negative health implications, including stress, sleep disorders, and infectious diseases.

The literature on the persistence of racial residential segregation in the United States has made significant progress by moving beyond traditional explanations—socioeconomic differences, preferences, and discrimination—to focus on the complex ways in which these factors interact with the multistage process of residential sorting.

Following the 2014 general election that brought Modi to power, enormous attention was paid by many commentators and analysts to the appeal of Modi to a young and restless electorate, particularly young men aspiring to jobs and recognition in a rapidly growing economy.

Largely overlooked in the empirical literature on gentrification is the potential impact that school closures play in this process.

How everyday forms of surveillance threaten undocumented immigrants—but also offer them hope for societal inclusion

Expulsions of populations from ancestral land were a cornerstone of apartheid rule and urban planning.

Living in a disadvantaged neighborhood has long been known to adversely affect children's academic achievement.

Recent studies have shown that U.S. Census– and American Community Survey (ACS)–based estimates of income segregation are subject to upward finite sampling bias (Logan et al. 2018; Logan et al. 2020; Reardon et al. 2018).

Spatial narratives help us to organize experiences and give them meaning. Previous approaches to understanding geographies in textual sources focus on geoparsing to automatically identify place names and allocate them to coordinates.

Analysis of neighborhood environments is important for understanding inequality.

Understanding how and why rising racial and economic segregation impacts achievement gaps is critical to closing them.

In an effort to decarbonize the built environment, municipalities across the United States are joining the National Building Performance Standard Coalition.

The United States largely depends on the automobile for personal transportation. This dominance has significant consequences for society over a range of issues, including the environment, public safety, public health, and equity.