We use innovative data and methods to study how changes in U.S. cities affect racial segregation and inequality to inform policy solutions that promote racial equity.
Highlights & Recent News
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, 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
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’s article 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
Partnership Highlight: City of Oakland
Vasudha Kumar and Iris Zhang participated in the kick-off gathering for the City of Oakland’s pilot homelessness prevention program in July 2023. Attendees included officials from the City of Oakland, researchers from the Housing Initiative at Penn, as well as program administrators from Bay Area Community Services and seven community organizations. Kumar and Zhang are steering research to monitor and evaluate the pilot program.
Prof. Jackelyn Hwang presented at the Population Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin in May 2022. Watch on YouTube.
Understanding the Impacts of Rent Stabilization
Prof. Jackelyn Hwang presented at the Urban Land Institute Minnesota and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis in May 2022. (Virtual video event; presentation starts at 31:47.)
Dashboard: Residential Instability in Oakland
See how Oakland residents are experiencing residential instability.
Partners: Stanford DAMS; City of Oakland Housing & Community Development.
“Seeing” Spatial Contexts at Scale
Prof. Jackelyn Hwang spoke at the Summer School on Methods for Computational Social Science, 2019.
Breaking Down Gentrification
NPR Grapple’s interview with Lab Director Prof. Jackelyn Hwang on Gentrification in 2016.