Christine Jang-Trettien
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685310 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christine Jang-Trettien |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christine |
| FAMILY NAME | Jang-Trettien |
| SIGNATURE | JANG-TRETTIEN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8967-6303 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The making of an epidemic of pain
Chronic pain in the United States has increased rapidly in recent decades. Social scientists argue that increases in pain are tied to economic conditions, but how the two are related remains a mystery. We draw on 96 immersive interviews with disability recipients and community leaders in one county in Central Appalachia to advance the hypothesis that “social pain”—or the painful feelings resulting from social disconnection—is a critical link betw…
Expanding Access to Rental Assistance
Research has shown that rental assistance is a powerful tool for addressing housing cost burden, instability, and other housing and non-housing outcomes. Rental subsidies can also be leveraged to increase housing supply and quality. Despite these realities, we have functioned within a solutions framework that is often constrained by funding, and most changes to the program have been slight adjustments to current federal approaches. In this paper,…
Beyond scale
Racialized Administrative Burden in Disability Assistance Programs in Two Rural Counties
This study examines the administrative burden imposed by two federal disability assistance programs, Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI). We consider how communities in two distinct regions of the United States—and their respective institutions—serve as mediators between citizens and the state. We draw on 68 interviews from Clay County, Kentucky, and Humphreys County, Mississippi—two rural counties w…
Concealed exchanges
How do real-estate investors make decisions about where to purchase properties? In recent years, an increasing share of the market has gone to investors, making it critical that we understand the behaviors of these important actors. This study examines investment as a relational process. Through 74 interviews with real estate investors, as well as additional interviews with homeowners and renters in low- to middle-income neighborhoods in Baltimor…
House of Cards
Homeownership is often tied to cultural conceptions of model citizenship, yet African Americans have long faced structural barriers to owning a home. Credit discrimination has often constrained black homeownership. However, missing from accounts of race, credit, and homeownership is how people purchase homes without mortgages. Through an analysis of public deed and mortgage records in Baltimore, I show that informal housing transactions - unregul…
Not Just a Lateral Move”
Despite decades of research on residential mobility and neighborhood effects, we know comparatively less about how people sort across geography. In recent years, scholars have been calling for research that considers residential selection as a social stratification process. In this paper, we present findings from work our team has done over the last 17 years to explore how people end up living where they do, relying in large part on systematicall…
There’s money to be made in community”
Ethnographic studies of neighborhood change have painted vivid portraits of the conflicts between new and legacy residents over norms, power, and resources. These findings, however, are out of sync with shrinking cities where gentrification and revitalization are inexorably intertwined. In particular, they neglect the expanded role of supply-side actors in molding the social life of changing communities. This article uses ethnographic data combin…
Not Just a Lateral Move”
Despite decades of research on residential mobility and neighborhood effects, we know comparatively less about how people sort across geography. In recent years, scholars have been calling for research that considers residential selection as a social stratification process. In this paper, we present findings from work our team has done over the last 17 years to explore how people end up living where they do, relying in large part on systematicall…
There’s money to be made in community”
Ethnographic studies of neighborhood change have painted vivid portraits of the conflicts between new and legacy residents over norms, power, and resources. These findings, however, are out of sync with shrinking cities where gentrification and revitalization are inexorably intertwined. In particular, they neglect the expanded role of supply-side actors in molding the social life of changing communities. This article uses ethnographic data combin…
House of Cards
Homeownership is often tied to cultural conceptions of model citizenship, yet African Americans have long faced structural barriers to owning a home. Credit discrimination has often constrained black homeownership. However, missing from accounts of race, credit, and homeownership is how people purchase homes without mortgages. Through an analysis of public deed and mortgage records in Baltimore, I show that informal housing transactions - unregul…
Racialized Administrative Burden in Disability Assistance Programs in Two Rural Counties
This study examines the administrative burden imposed by two federal disability assistance programs, Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI). We consider how communities in two distinct regions of the United States—and their respective institutions—serve as mediators between citizens and the state. We draw on 68 interviews from Clay County, Kentucky, and Humphreys County, Mississippi—two rural counties w…
There’s money to be made in community”
Ethnographic studies of neighborhood change have painted vivid portraits of the conflicts between new and legacy residents over norms, power, and resources. These findings, however, are out of sync with shrinking cities where gentrification and revitalization are inexorably intertwined. In particular, they neglect the expanded role of supply-side actors in molding the social life of changing communities. This article uses ethnographic data combin…
Not Just a Lateral Move”
Despite decades of research on residential mobility and neighborhood effects, we know comparatively less about how people sort across geography. In recent years, scholars have been calling for research that considers residential selection as a social stratification process. In this paper, we present findings from work our team has done over the last 17 years to explore how people end up living where they do, relying in large part on systematicall…
House of Cards
Homeownership is often tied to cultural conceptions of model citizenship, yet African Americans have long faced structural barriers to owning a home. Credit discrimination has often constrained black homeownership. However, missing from accounts of race, credit, and homeownership is how people purchase homes without mortgages. Through an analysis of public deed and mortgage records in Baltimore, I show that informal housing transactions - unregul…
Beyond scale
Racialized Administrative Burden in Disability Assistance Programs in Two Rural Counties
This study examines the administrative burden imposed by two federal disability assistance programs, Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI). We consider how communities in two distinct regions of the United States—and their respective institutions—serve as mediators between citizens and the state. We draw on 68 interviews from Clay County, Kentucky, and Humphreys County, Mississippi—two rural counties w…
Concealed exchanges
How do real-estate investors make decisions about where to purchase properties? In recent years, an increasing share of the market has gone to investors, making it critical that we understand the behaviors of these important actors. This study examines investment as a relational process. Through 74 interviews with real estate investors, as well as additional interviews with homeowners and renters in low- to middle-income neighborhoods in Baltimor…
Expanding Access to Rental Assistance
Research has shown that rental assistance is a powerful tool for addressing housing cost burden, instability, and other housing and non-housing outcomes. Rental subsidies can also be leveraged to increase housing supply and quality. Despite these realities, we have functioned within a solutions framework that is often constrained by funding, and most changes to the program have been slight adjustments to current federal approaches. In this paper,…
The making of an epidemic of pain
Chronic pain in the United States has increased rapidly in recent decades. Social scientists argue that increases in pain are tied to economic conditions, but how the two are related remains a mystery. We draw on 96 immersive interviews with disability recipients and community leaders in one county in Central Appalachia to advance the hypothesis that “social pain”—or the painful feelings resulting from social disconnection—is a critical link betw…
Business (6 works) · Economics (4 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (4 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Housing Market and Economics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (3 works) · Geography (2 works)