Funding source: California Community Foundation

Contract number: BA-18-147082

Total cost: $75,000

Performance period: 7/1/2016 to 7/31/2017

Intra-urban household mobility has been a feature of U.S. metropolitan areas for over a century. This mobility may positively or negatively affect households. Positive or ‘upward' mobility may reflect a move for a better job, better housing, a better neighborhood, toward homeownership, or to attain more education. Negative mobility, often termed displacement, may occur if a household is evicted or unable to pay increased rent. Both positive and negative mobility are included in the baseline mobility in a metropolitan area. While negative mobility is the primary interest of this study, we first establish a mobility baseline for Los Angeles County and then measure differential mobility (which we will call displacement going forward) in rail station areas along the Red and Purple Line Subway.