publications

2023

1. Immigration

   New Frontiers of Integration: Convergent Pathways of Neighborhood Diversification in Metropolitan New York

   Kasey Zapatka and Van C. Tran

   RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Feb 2023

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   This article examines the most recent trends on neighborhood racial integration in New York—the country’s largest metropolitan area in 2019 with a total population of 19.2 million. We ask how the suburbanization of both immigration and poverty have transformed suburbs over the last two decades. We highlight four findings. First, ethnoracial diversification has led to a significant decline in nonintegrated neighborhoods and a sharp rise in integrated neighborhoods, but such a decline is more dramatic in suburbs than in cities. Second, White-integrated neighborhoods remain the most prevalent form of neighborhood integration in both cities and suburbs. Third, immigrant neighborhoods are more likely to be integrated in both suburbs and cities, but immigration’s impact on neighborhood integration in suburbs was stronger in 2000 than in 2019. Finally, the impacts of concentrated immigration, affluence, and disadvantage on neighborhood integration are consistent across suburbs and cities, pointing to convergent processes over time.

   @article{Zapatka2023,
     title = {New {{Frontiers}} of {{Integration}}: {{Convergent Pathways}} of {{Neighborhood Diversification}} in {{Metropolitan New York}}},
     shorttitle = {New {{Frontiers}} of {{Integration}}},
     author = {Zapatka, Kasey and Tran, Van C.},
     year = {2023},
     month = feb,
     journal = {RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences},
     volume = {9},
     number = {1},
     pages = {52--83},
     publisher = {RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences},
     issn = {2377-8253, 2377-8261},
     doi = {10.7758/RSF.2023.9.1.03},
     urldate = {2023-09-21},
     copyright = {{\copyright} 2023 Russell Sage Foundation. Zapatka, Kasey, and Van C. Tran. 2023. ``New Frontiers of Integration: Convergent Pathways of Neighborhood Diversification in Metropolitan New York.'' RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 9(1): 52--83. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2023.9.1.03. Support for this project was provided by a PSC-CUNY Award, jointly funded by The Professional Staff Congress and The City University of New York. Direct correspondence to: Kasey Zapatka, at kzapatka@gradcenter.cuny.edu, Department of Sociology, City University of New York, The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, 6th floor, New York, NY 10016.. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.},
     langid = {english},
     keywords = {immigration,neighborhood integration,New York,suburbanization},
   }

2022

1. Housing Policy

   Affordable Regulation: New York City Rent Stabilization as Housing Affordability Policy

   Kasey Zapatka and Juliana de Castro Galvao

   City & Community, Oct 2022

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   The growing housing affordability crisis is at the center of conversations about U.S. inequality. This paper reconsiders the role of rent stabilization as one important affordability tool. We investigate who is most likely to benefit from rent stabilization, how much non-stabilized renters would save if their units were stabilized, and the extent to which stabilization would reduce rent burden among households. Using New York City Housing Vacancy Survey data and employing logistic and hedonic regression techniques, we show that Hispanic and foreign-born householders are more likely to live in rent-stabilized units and find evidence of both rent savings and rent burden reduction when comparing stabilized tenants with their non-stabilized counterparts. We argue that expanded rent stabilization could be paired with policies that stimulate new construction to simultaneously curb rent inflation, protect current populations from displacement, and increase housing supply.

   @article{Zapatka2022,
     title = {Affordable {{Regulation}}: {{New York City Rent Stabilization}} as {{Housing Affordability Policy}}},
     author = {Zapatka, Kasey and {de Castro Galvao}, Juliana},
     year = {2022},
     month = oct,
     journal = {City \& Community},
     pages = {48-73},
     publisher = {SAGE Publications},
     issn = {1535-6841},
     doi = {10.1177/15356841221123762},
     urldate = {2022-10-15},
   }

2021

1. Immigration

   Superdiversity in Metropolitan New York: Technical Report

   Kasey Zapatka

   Max Planck Institute, Jun 2021

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   This report describes the data and materials used to produce the Superdiversity in Metropolitan New York visualization website (www.superdiv-newyork.mmg.mpg.de), launched in 2020. This includes the data sources, design principles and methods, as well as the properties and categories of the variables used in the visualizations presented on the website.

   @article{Zapatka2021a,
     title = {Superdiversity in Metropolitan New York: Technical Report},
     month = jun,
     author = {Zapatka, Kasey},
     journal = {Max Planck Institute},
     year = {2021},
   }

2. Immigration

   Reordering Occupation, Race, and Place in Metropolitan New York

   Kasey Zapatka, John Mollenkopf, and Steven Romalewski

   In Urban socio-economic segregation and income inequality: a global perspective, Jun 2021

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   The New York metropolitan area is one of the oldest, largest, and perhaps most complex urban region in the United States (U.S.). Its 23.7 million residents live across four states, produce a GDP of more than $1.7 trillion, are governed by a fragmented political system, and experience persistently high degrees of geographic and racial/ethnic inequality and segregation. This chapter investigates the evolving spatial organization of occupation and race across the metropolitan area. While white professionals have traditionally lived in an outer ring of suburbs and blue-collar immigrant and minority groups have lived closer to the city center, our research shows that the forces of gentrification and minority and immigrant suburbaniza- tion have been turning the metropolitan area inside out. Specifically, young, usually white, professionals are increasingly located in and around the central city whereas many working-class minorities have shifted away from it. At the heart of this spatial reordering lie the diminishing plurality of native-born whites within the region and the increasing share of immigrant minority groups, especially for foreign-born Hispanics and Asians. This trend has lessened the share of white males in better occupations even as the region’s occupational structure slowly but inexorably tilts toward manage- rial and professional occupations. Technology is transforming white-collar work as blue-collar work continues to disappear. Dramatic shifts are thus afoot, yet inequality and segregation remain high. We argue that these changes in the spatial organization of the metropolitan area challenge us to see these inequalities from a new vantage point. As elites are now more likely to live among less advantaged groups, this may provide the social basis for new thinking.

2020

1. Gentrification

   Does Demand Lead Supply? Gentrifiers and Developers in the Sequence of Gentrification, New York City 2009–2016

   Kasey Zapatka and Brenden Beck

   Urban Studies, Aug 2020

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   @article{Zapatka2020,
     title = {Does Demand Lead Supply? {Gentrifiers} and Developers in the Sequence of Gentrification, {New York City} 2009--2016},
     author = {Zapatka, Kasey and Beck, Brenden},
     year = {2020},
     month = aug,
     journal = {Urban Studies},
     publisher = {SAGE Publications Ltd},
     issn = {0042-0980},
     doi = {10.1177/0042098020940596},
   }

2017

1. Gentrification

   Review of Planetary Gentrification by Loretta Lees, Hyun Bang Shin, and Ernesto Lopez-Morales.

   Kasey Zapatka

   City & Community, Jun 2017

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   @article{Zapatka2017,
     title = {Review of {{Planetary Gentrification}} by {{Loretta Lees}}, {{Hyun Bang Shin}}, and {{Ernesto Lopez-Morales}}.},
     author = {Zapatka, Kasey},
     year = {2017},
     month = jun,
     journal = {City \& Community},
     volume = {16},
     number = {2},
     pages = {228-230},
     copyright = {All rights reserved},
     doi = {10.1111/cico.12237},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1111/cico.12237},
   }