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Tim Thomas

Tim Thomas

Research Director at UC Berkeley's Urban Displacement Project; urban sociologist studying gentrification, eviction, and housing inequality.

Jun 25, 2026

1:43
What is urban displacement?
1:46
You know, it's a really good question that we don't talk a lot about.
1:49
We hear this term about displacement.
1:50
We hear about terms like gentrification.
1:52
But I think it's really nice and easy to actually situate this into kind of three buckets, right? There are exclusive neighborhoods, really expensive neighborhoods we can't really get into, right? These are spaces that...
2:06
More wealthy folks move into and individuals who are higher income tend to be more mobile.
2:12
They could move to spaces they want to.

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19:34
How many Americans are going through this each year? And do you have a sense of whether this is a problem that is increasing or any sense of sort of like the trajectory of it?

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