abstract: 'Despite decades of research on residential mobility and neighborhood

  effects, we know comparatively less about how people sort across

  geography. While there are reasons for lagging developments in the area

  of residential decisions, we join others in calling for research to

  consider residential selection as a social stratification process-one

  ripe with significant conceptual and policy potential. In this paper, we

  present findings from work our team has done over the last 17 years to

  explore how people end up living where they do. We focus on four key

  decisions: whether to move; where to move; whether to send children to

  school in the neighborhood; and whether to rent or own a home. We found

  that many residential mobility decisions among the poor were

  ``reactive,{''''} with unpredictable shocks forcing families out of their

  homes. As a result of reactive moving, time frames became shorter as

  poor parents employed short-term survival solutions to secure housing

  instead of long-term investment thinking about neighborhood quality and

  schools. These shocks, constraints, and shorter time frames led parents

  to decouple important aspects of neighborhood and school quality from

  the housing search process while maximizing others like immediacy of

  shelter, unit quality, and proximity to work and child care. Finally, we

  found that policies can have a significant impact on some of these

  decisions. Combined, our research revealed some of the decision-making

  processes that underlie locational attainment and the intergenerational

  transmission of neighborhood context.'
affiliation: 'DeLuca, S (Corresponding Author), Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD
  21218 USA.

  DeLuca, Stefanie, Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA.

  Jang-Trettien, Christine, Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA.'
author: DeLuca, Stefanie and Jang-Trettien, Christine
author-email: sdeluca@jhu.edu
author_list:
- family: DeLuca
  given: Stefanie
- family: Jang-Trettien
  given: Christine
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1111/cico.12515
earlyaccessdate: SEP 2020
eissn: 1540-6040
files: []
issn: 1535-6841
journal: CITY \& COMMUNITY
keywords-plus: 'LOW-INCOME; SPATIAL ASSIMILATION; NEIGHBORHOOD POVERTY; MOBILITY

  DECISIONS; POOR NEIGHBORHOODS; CHEAP ETHNOGRAPHY; HOUSING MOBILITY; HOME

  OWNERSHIP; SEARCH; PREFERENCES'
language: English
month: SEP
number: '3'
number-of-cited-references: '192'
pages: 451-488
papis_id: 01200afea5a9c4ca657186911969bc6f
ref: Deluca2020notjust
times-cited: '19'
title: '``Not Just a Lateral Move″: Residential Decisions and the Reproduction of
  Urban Inequality'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000566420100001
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '24'
volume: '19'
web-of-science-categories: Sociology; Urban Studies
year: '2020'