Stefanie DeLuca and Christine Jang-Trettien spoke as panelists at a forum exploring emerging research in the sociology of housing in the United States.

There is a growing recognition that the influence of residential mobility in shaping urban outcomes has been both seriously undervalued and badly understood. The Urban Institute's Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center hosted an all-day symposium to begin to remedy these deficiencies. The day was devoted to the presentation and discussion of seven new papers by leading researchers in this field, with topics ranging from the varied nature of the moves that occur in low-income neighborhoods to their effects on spatial patterns and the well-being of families and neighborhoods.

Dr. DeLuca, along with David Imbroscio (University of Louisville), Gregory Squires (George Washington University), J. Phillip Thompson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and Edward Goetz (University of Minnesota), participated in a panel discussion, entitled, "Beyond Mobility? Contrasting Perspectives on Urban Policy and the Just City."

Dr. DeLuca and Dr. Rosenblatt presented on "Housing, Education and Family Dynamics: How Poor Families Get Trapped in Low Performing Schools and What We Can Do About It" at the "Choosing Homes, Choosing Schools Mini Conference." Other notable presenters included: 

The reproduction of segregation and unequal neighborhood attainment has long been a social problem identified by scholars. Despite demonstrating high levels of residential mobility between intraurban neighborhoods, low-income black families are more likely than any other group to move between disadvantaged neighborhoods. These findings call for research to identify the mechanisms which work to channel families into unequal neighborhoods.

They presented on their research paper, "Timing and Turbulence: A New Look at Mobility and Dropout": We examine whether school mobility puts youth at risk for high school dropout, or whether mobility reflects underlying individual level factors. We use the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 and propensity score matching to reduce selection bias when estimating the effects of residential and school mobility in early adolescence on dropout. We provide new evidence that mobility may not lead to dropout, as previous research has concluded.