Measuring Displacement: Assessing Proxies for Involuntary Residential Mobility

H. Jacob Carlson

doi:10.1111/cico.12482

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Measuring Displacement: Assessing Proxies for Involuntary Residential Mobility

H. Jacob Carlson

City & Community Vol. 19 No. 3 pp. 573-592 · SAGE Publications

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Abstract

Research has repeatedly found that displacement is not more likely in gentrifying neighborhoods. Since the dependent variable—displacement—is difficult to measure, researchers resort to a variety of proxy measures for it. I classify three types of proxies: a population approach that measures compositional changes in neighborhoods over time, an individual approach that measures individual housing mobility, and a motivational approach that traces both individual mobility as well as the reasons why a household moved to determine whether that move was involuntary. I examine the prevalence of these approaches across a sample of the literature. I then test the commensurability of the proxy measures with data from New York City by comparing the rank orderings of neighborhoods with the most and least displacement. I find widely different results across the approaches. I explain these results by examining the underlying mechanisms of displacement that are masked by the other approaches.

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Published: Sep 01, 2020
Vol/Issue: 19(3)
Pages: 573-592
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H. Jacob Carlson

Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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H. Jacob Carlson (2020). Measuring Displacement: Assessing Proxies for Involuntary Residential Mobility. City & Community, 19(3), 573-592. https://doi.org/10.1111/cico.12482

Measuring Displacement: Assessing Proxies for Involuntary Residential Mobility

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