In an article published in City & Community in 2026, CCRL PhD student Renee Louis and colleagues conduct a mixed methods study to investigate residential stability in poor immigrant neighborhoods.

Prof. Jackelyn Hwang, along with Robb Willer, was named a leading individual contributor in the Computational Social Science Rankings, a decade-long, metrics-based assessment of publication output.

Prof. Jackelyn Hwang joins Russ Altman on Stanford Engineering’s The Future of Everything podcast to discuss how she uses AI and Google Street View to study gentrification, displacement, and neighborhood well-being, and how her research is informing anti-displacement and homelessness prevention policy in the Bay Area.

The Racial Equity in Neighborhoods (REN) Collaborative, led by Jackelyn Hwang’s Changing Cities Research Lab with support from Stanford’s Institute for Advancing Just Societies, brings researchers, local officials, and community leaders together to design and test housing and neighborhood equity solutions in Bay Area cities.

Jackelyn Hwang and Iris Zhang use national panel data from 2000 to 2017 to show that gentrification isn’t linked to higher moving rates for lower-income residents, but that Black and White movers end up in starkly different neighborhoods at every income level.

by Nima Dahir and Jackelyn Hwang
City and Community, 2025

by Jackelyn Hwang and Tyler McDaniel
Annual Review of Sociology, 2022