Research Opportunity: Before and Beyond Displacement: Gentrification, Residential Instability, and Racial Inequality
This research opportunity is part of the Urban Studies Research Program. Students who participate will work with their faculty mentor, and will also share their findings at a research symposium with students and faculty working on other projects. To learn more about the Urban Studies Research Program, see our website.
Project Title: Before and Beyond Displacement: Gentrification, Residential Instability, and Racial Inequality
Faculty Member: Jackelyn Hwang
Abstract: While moving itself can be detrimental, gentrification pushes residents to live in crowded conditions, substandard housing, and in financial precarity before evictions or other forms of forced displacement ever take place and affects residents beyond the move by constraining where movers end up. We know less about the precarious situations that residents live in before and beyond displacement, gentrification’s role in this process, and the mechanisms that drive differential outcomes by race. This project examines how gentrification affects low-income residents' residential stability before and beyond displacement and how this varies by race in the Bay Area. The project will involve collecting and analyzing survey and interview data in the City of Oakland and analyzing existing datasets on demographic, financial, and housing conditions in relation to gentrification and housing programs and policies.
- Implement surveys and conduct interviews with Oakland residents
- Assist with cleaning and analyzing quantitative and qualitative data
- Produce visualizations of results
- Gather background information on specific policies, developments, and cities
- Develop skills in mixed-methods data collection and analysis and data visualization and advance knowledge on neighborhood change, segregation, and housing policies.
Qualifications:
Strong communication skills; experience with R, qualitative coding, and/or data visualization is a plus.
Enrollment & Academic Standing
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Students must be current undergraduates in good standing at Stanford.
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Students must be enrolled in units while using VPUE grant funding, except during the Summer.
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Students may not receive both academic units and a stipend for any single project activity.
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Co-terms who have not conferred their undergraduate degree and who are still paying undergraduate (not graduate) tuition are eligible for VPUE funding.
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Students may not be serving a suspension.
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Students may not be on a Leave of Absence (LOA) while using grant funding.
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VPUE does not use a GPA requirement for student eligibility, nor does VPUE encourage the use of GPA as a criterion for inclusion in a research opportunity.
Quarters Available:
- Summer, full-time
Stipend:
Full-time projects: $7500 + up to $1500 based on financial need and student qualification. Read more about stipends.
