Hi, I'm Taesoo.

I am an incoming Assistant Professor in the Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning (UEPP) program in the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) at Virginia Tech.

My research asks how housing supply shapes who gets to live where, and with what consequences for inequality.

I pursue this across three lines of inquiry: (1) housing supply, neighborhoods, and access: how supply-side housing and land use policies shape neighborhood change and residential mobility; (2) race and immigration: how they structure inclusion and exclusion in housing markets, especially among Asian Americans; and (3) data infrastructure: the big data, from consumer records to local building permits, needed to measure it all.

My work appears in the Journal of the American Planning Association, Urban Studies, Housing Policy Debate, Cityscape, and the Journal of Urban Affairs, and has been supported by the Russell Sage Foundation, among others.

I’ve earned my Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. Previously, I was a Graduate Student Researcher at the Terner Center for Housing Innovation and a Senior Data Science & AI Fellow at the UC Berkeley D-Lab. I have also worked with the Urban Displacement Project, supporting San Francisco and Los Angeles on racial-equity and anti-displacement plans, and with the Seoul Institute on commercial gentrification in Seoul.