Publications
Peer-reviewed journal articles
Davis, J., Song, T. & Chapple, K. (2026). How Does Upzoning Impact Residential Mobility Among Low-Income Households? Evidence from New York City. Housing Policy Debate, 1–21.
Song, T. & Reid, C. (2026). The Implications of Naturally Occurring Affordable Housing (NOAH) Sales for Residential Mobility. Journal of the American Planning Association 92(3), 360–374.
2026 JAPA Article of the Year
Song, T. (2026). Anti-immigration and the Politics of Housing Affordability: Examining the Evolution and Housing Market Impacts of Foreign Buyer Taxes in British Columbia and Ontario. Journal of Urban Affairs 48(9), 2813–2830.
Chapple, K. & Song, T. (2025). Can New Housing Supply Mitigate Displacement and Exclusion? Evidence from Los Angeles and San Francisco. Journal of the American Planning Association 91(1), 1–15.
Ramiller, A., Song, T., Parker, M. & Chapple, K. (2024). Residential Mobility and Big Data: Assessing the Validity of Consumer Reference Datasets. Cityscape 26(3), 227–239.
Song, T. & Chapple, K. (2024). Does Gentrification Constrain Housing Markets for Low-Income Households? Evidence from Household Residential Mobility in the New York and San Francisco Metropolitan Areas. Urban Studies 61(13), 2603–2622.
Lee, S., Song, T. & Lim, U. (2022). How Are Happy and Unhappy People Differently Affected by Their Local Environments? The Heterogeneous Relationship Between Happiness and Local Environments in Seoul, Korea. Cities 127, 103768.
Book reviews
Song, T. (2026). Fortunate People in a Fortunate Land: At Home in Santa Monica’s Rent-Controlled Housing, by Lauren E. M. Everett. Journal of Urban Affairs.
Policy briefs
Song, T. (2026). Foreign Buyer Taxes and the Rental Affordability Gap. School of Cities, University of Toronto, Policy Brief No. 06, September 8, 2026.
Public scholarship
Song, T. & Reid, C. (2026). Preserving NOAH as an Anti-Displacement Strategy. Terner Center Blog, Terner Center for Housing Innovation, UC Berkeley.
Song, T. (2025). Why Data Disaggregation Matters: Exploring the Diversity of Asian American Economic Outcomes Using Public Use Microdata Sample Data. D-Lab Blog, UC Berkeley D-Lab.
Song, T. (2024). Exploring Rental Affordability in the San Francisco Bay Area Neighborhoods with R. D-Lab Blog, UC Berkeley D-Lab.
Song, T. (2024). Recent Trends in American Residential Mobility Research and Consumer Big Data. Propbix Magazine 18, 31–37, Institute of Proptech Big Data (in Korean).
Work in progress
Ramiller, A. & Song, T.. Rezoning and Property Conversion: Alternative Pathways to Infill Housing in Three U.S. Cities. In preparation
Song, T.. Naturally Occurring Affordable Housing (NOAH) Sales and Renovation: Evidence from New York City’s Rent-Stabilized Apartments. In preparation
Song, T. & Davis, J.. Upzoning and Demolition: Housing Loss and Redevelopment in New York City. In preparation
Song, T.. Immigration, Housing Markets, and Ethnic Divergence in Asian American Homeownership, 2000–2019. Under review
Song, T.. How Does Suburban Housing Supply Shape Asian American Segregation?. In preparation