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Building Equitable Neighborhoods: A New Model for the Bay Area and Beyond
July 2026
Prof. Jackelyn Hwang’s work on the Racial Equity in Neighborhoods (REN) Collaborative was highlighted by the Stanford Institute for Advancing Just Societies. Learn more about the REN collaborative model and its implications for creating more equitable neighborhoods.
Podcast: The Future of Cities
August 2026
Prof. Jackelyn Hwang’s research using Google Street View imagery and AI were featured in The Future of Everything podcast with the Stanford School of Engineering.
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2026
September 2026
Eve Dill (PhD Candidate, Stanford) was accepted into Stanford’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) Data Science Scholars Program.
Ángel Mendiola Ross (Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford) published a paper on the relationship between prisons, space, and suburbanization:
Research Note: Urban Expansion and the New Carceral Geography
by Ángel Mendiola Ross
Renee Louis (PhD Candidate, Stanford) appeared in a podcast discussing her paper, “Profit or Protection? Evictions and Housing Dynamics in Immigrant Neighborhoods.”
August 2026
Prof. Jackelyn Hwang’s research using Google Street View imagery and AI were featured in The Future of Everything podcast with the Stanford School of Engineering:
Technology & Society | The Future of Cities
Eve Dill (PhD Candidate, Stanford) presented her third-year paper, “Residential Diversity and Exposure Segregation in U.S. Neighborhoods,” at the American Sociological Association roundtable.
July 2026
Prof. Jackelyn Hwang’s work on the Racial Equity in Neighborhoods (REN) Collaborative was highlighted by the Stanford Institute for Advancing Just Societies:
Building Equitable Neighborhoods: A New Model for the Bay Area and Beyond
June 2026
Renee Louis (PhD Candidate, Stanford) co-authored a paper in City and Community:
Profit or Protection? Evictions and Housing Dynamics in Immigrant Neighborhoods
by Lillian Leung, Renee Louis, Jasmine Rangel, and Matthew Desmond
Olive Jin (PhD Candidate, Stanford) presented her paper, "Racial inequality in rental markets: How algorithms shape rental decisions" at the Housing Policy Debate Symposium in Philadelphia, PA.
Angela He (PhD Candidate, Stanford) received the ASA Consumers and Consumption Section best student paper award for her paper, “The Moral Principles of Buyer Legitimacy: Perceptions of Who Should Be Allowed to Buy in the American Housing Market.”
Eva Knowles (M.A. Student, Stanford) received the Program on Urban Studies’ Outstanding Thesis Award for her honors thesis, “Contesting Crisis: Reputation, Narrative, and the Making of Downtown Identity in ‘Failed’ San Francisco.”
Congratulations to all graduating CCRL members! And congratulations to all CCRL members for another successful academic year!
May 2026
Angela He (PhD Candidate, Stanford) received the Barbara and Sandy Dornbusch Award in Social Psychology for her paper "The Role of Racial Composition in Neighborhood Selection Under Contemporary Information-Rich Search Conditions.”
2025
December 2025
Mavis Stone (PhD Candidate, Stanford) gave a talk on their qualitative research of preventative measures against green gentrification at the yearly annual American Geophysical Union meeting:
"Mitigation of Green Gentrification Through Community-led Nature-based Solutions (NbS)"
by Mavis Stone
June 2025
Prof. Jackelyn Hwang and Prof. Nima Dahir received Honorable Mention for the American Sociological Association Community and Urban Sociology Section's Jane Addams Award for Best Article for their article published in City & Community:
Who Owns the Neighborhood? Ethnoracial Composition of Property Ownership and Neighborhood Trajectories in San Francisco
by Nima Dahir and Jackelyn Hwang
Congratulations to the PhD students at the Changing Cities Research Lab for all their papers published in the past academic year!
Olivia Jin (PhD Candidate, Stanford) co-authored a forthcoming paper in Annual Review of Sociology:
Online Nonprobability Samples
by Jeremy Freese and Olivia Jin
Qiwei Lin (PhD Student, Stanford) co-authored a paper in Scientific Data:
Enabling Disaggregation of Asian American Subgroups: A Datset of Wikidata Names for Disparity Estimation
by Qiwei Lin, Derek Ouyang, Cameron Guage, Isabel O. Gallegos, Jacob Goldin, and Daniel E. Ho
Tyler McDaniel (PhD Candidate, Stanford) won the Stanford Sociology Department’s New Direction Research Award for his recent paper published in Socius, examining how activity spaces relate to school enrollments and school segregation.
Segregated Activities, Segregated Schools? Neighborhoods, Activity Spaces, and Enrollments in Los Angeles
by Tyler McDaniel
Tyler McDaniel also co-authored a paper in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility:
Doing Gender and the Surname Choices of Married Women
by Florencia Torche, Alisa Feldman, Tyler McDaniel
February 2025
Prof. Jackelyn Hwang, Mira Joseph, Iris Zhang (PhD Candidate, Stanford), and researchers from the Housing Initiative at Penn co-authored a policy report presenting findings from a 1.5 year long evaluation of Keep People Housed, a homelessness prevention pilot program in Oakland.
Keep People Housed: Oakland’s Targeted Homelessness Prevention Pilot
by Mira Joseph, Cypress Marrs, Chi-Hyun Kim, Iris Zhang, Vincent Reina, and Jackelyn Hwang
January 2025
Prof. Jackelyn Hwang co-authored a paper in Cities examining how construction sites, recreational vehicles, and mismanaged trash in neighborhoods impact human well-beingand perceptions of neighborhoods, using self-reported stress metrics and eye-tracking.
Psycho-behavioral Responses to Urban Scenes: An Exploration through Eye-tracking
by Arash Tavakoli, Isabella Douglas, Hae Young Noh, Jackelyn Hwang, and Sarah Billington
2024
October 2024
Prof. Jackelyn Hwang and Iris Zhang (PhD Candidate, Stanford) published a policy brief on rent control in California in Scholars Strategy Network.
Rent Control’s Expansion and the Need for Local Control
by Jackelyn Hwang and Iris Zhang
Prof. Jackelyn Hwang and Iris Zhang (PhD Candidate, Stanford) also published a paper analyzing how gentrification influences residential mobility and whether its effects are racially stratified as a lead article in City & Community.
The Reign of Racialized Residential Sorting: Gentrification and Residential Mobility in the Twenty-First Century
by Jackelyn Hwang and Iris Zhang
February 2024
Professors Jackelyn Hwang and Nima Dahir published a paper in Socius using city service request data and computer vision analysis toexamine the neighborhood characteristics associated with propensities to request trash-related services across five large U.S. cities, revealing insights about spatial inequality and social control.
Cleaning Up the Neighborhood: White Influx and Differential Requests for Services
by Nima Dahir, Jackelyn Hwang, and Ang Yu
Prof. Jackelyn Hwang and Tianyuan Huang (PhD Candidate, Stanford) published a paper that uses a large street view time series dataset and an end-to-end change detection model to capture urban transformations at scale, offering a fine-grained tool to enhance sustainable urban planning.
CityPulse: Fine-Grained Assessment of Urban Change with Street View Time Series
by Tianyuan Huang, Zeija Woo, Jiajun Wu, Jackelyn Hwang, Ram Rajagopol
January 2024
Prof. Jackelyn Hwang and Iris Zhang (PhD Candidate, Stanford) published an article that investigates the impact of gentrification on the mobility patterns of residents using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) from 2001 to 2017 in Urban Affairs Review.
Where Do They Go? The Destinations of Residents Moving from Gentrifying Neighborhoods
by Lance Freeman, Jackelyn Hwang, Tyler Haupert and Iris Zhang
2023
August 2023
Prof. Jackelyn Hwang and Nima Dahir (PhD Candidate, Stanford) published an article that uses large scale computer vision methods to detect trash levels in millions of street level images in Sociological Methods and Research.
Curating Training Data for Reliable Large-Scale Visual Data Analysis: Lessons from Identifying Trash in Street View Imagery
by Jackelyn Hwang, Nima Dahir, Mayuka Sarukkai, and Gabby Wright
April 2023
Prof. Jackelyn Hwang and Nikhil Naik (Salesforce Research) published an article introducing systematic social observation at scale, a pipeline for using visual data, crowdsourcing, and computer vision to identify visible characteristics of neighborhoods at a large scale in Sociological Methodology.
Systematic Social Observation at Scale: Using Crowdsourcing and Computer Vision to Measure Visible Neighborhood Conditions
by Jackelyn Hwang and Nikhil Naik
February 2023
Prof. Jackelyn Hwang and Vasudha Kumar released a policy report on housing insecurity in Oakland. This work was conducted in collaboration with the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and the City of Oakland’s Housing & Community Development Department.
Policy Report: The State of Housing Insecurity in Oakland
by Jackelyn Hwang and Vasudha Kumar
January 2023
Prof. Jackelyn Hwang partnered with the King County Department of Public Health and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco to publish a report on residential moving patterns in King County, WA between 2002 and 2017.
Who Moved and Where Did They Go? An analysis of residential moving patterns in King County, WA between 2002–2017
by Jackelyn Hwang, Bina P. Shrimali, and Public Health – Seattle & King County Assessment, Policy Development and Evaluation Unit
2022
September 2022
The Lab received a $500,000 award to fund our project on understanding and tackling residential instability in Oakland, California. In partnership with the City’s Department of Housing & Community Development, the team (Prof. Jackelyn Hwang, Vasudha Kumar and Iris Zhang) will develop evidence-based insights and interventions to improve housing stability and racial disparities in Oakland.
Project: Tackling Residential Instability in Oakland
Stanford Impact Labs (Funder)
$4M awarded to 8 impact labs to combat social ills
Award announcement by Stanford University
August 2022
Prof. Jackelyn Hwang and Dr. Bina Shrimali (FRB SF) published an article on shared and crowded housing in the Bay Area in Housing Policy Debate.
Shared and Crowded Housing in the Bay Area: Where Gentrification and the Housing Crisis Meet COVID-19
by Jackelyn Hwang and Bina P. Shrimali
Prof. Jackelyn Hwang co-authored a working paper with Dr. Lei Ding (FRB Philadelphia) on the effects of COVID-19 on gentrification.
Has COVID Reversed Gentrification in Major U.S. Cities?
by Lei Ding and Jackelyn Hwang
July 2022
Prof. Jackelyn Hwang’sarticle with Tyler W. McDaniel (PhD Candidate, Stanford) on urban change and segregation in the 21st century was published in the Annual Review of Sociology.
Racialized Reshuffling: Urban Change and the Persistence of Segregation in the Twenty-First Century
by Jackelyn Hwang and Tyler W. McDaniel
Prof. Jackelyn Hwang, Becky Liang, Vasudha Kumar, and Dr. Jason Vargo (FRB SF) released a research brief on residential instability in the Bay Area during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Residential Instability in the Bay Area through the COVID-19 Pandemic
by Jackelyn Hwang, Becky Liang, Vasudha Kumar, and Jason Vargo
March 2022
Prof. Jackelyn Hwang and Iris Zhang (PhD Candidate, Stanford) partnered with the Urban Displacement Project (University of California, Berkeley) to release a new report assessing the impacts of market-rate housing production, subsidized housing development, and tenant protections on displacement and exclusion in the Bay Area.
Housing Market Interventions and Residential Mobility in the San Francisco Bay Area
by Karen Chapple, Jackelyn Hwang, Jae Sik Jeon, Iris Zhang, Julia Greenberg, and Bina P. Shrimali