J Gibbons
Biographic Data
| ID | 44174 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Gibbons |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Gibbons |
| SIGNATURE | GIBBONS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Diego State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2470-9068 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 141 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Anchoring Diversity? Public Housing and Racial Stability in White Gentrifying Neighborhoods
Gentrification, the process of rising property values and socioeconomic upgrading in low-income neighborhoods, has long been associated with the displacement of communities of color. Yet questions remain about whether certain institutional features, such as public housing, can stabilize neighborhood racial composition amid gentrification. To address this issue, this study examines census and American Community Survey data with the Department of H…
Reading Between the Red Lines: Evaluating Federal Neighborhood Classifications and Racial Succession in 1940s Chicago
Against the grain? Non-White gentrification in a segregated urban landscape
Little is known about the factors that predict Black and Latino gentrification across United States cities, particularly the role of neighborhood racial/ethnic composition and broader patterns of segregation. Using decennial Census and American Community Survey data, this study applies panel logistic Generalized Linear Mixed-Effects Models to assess the prevalence and predictors of Black, Latino, and White gentrification in metropolitan areas fro…
Priming the pump: Does Black and Hispanic gentrification predict White gentrification
The discourse on gentrification, which centers on reinvestment in disadvantaged communities, often focuses on the influx of White residents into low-income Black and Hispanic neighborhoods. However, scholarly opinions diverge on the attractiveness of communities of color to White gentrifiers. This study aims to address this debate by utilizing US Census and American Community Survey data to identify the racial/ethnic factors influencing White-dri…
Signs and portents: Determining the long-term association of New Deal era redlining with contemporary racial/ethnic compositions
The Divided House: Does Racial Segregation Predict Far-Right Protest in United States Metropolitan Areas
Patterns of Force: The Relationship Between Officer-Involved Homicides of Black and Hispanic Citizens and Metropolitan Residential Segregation
The increase in the prevalence of highly publicized police officer-involved homicides (OIHs) of Black and Hispanic community members has eroded trust in law enforcement. This study posits that these OIHs are a manifestation of the structural disparities resulting from racial/ethnic segregation in metropolitan areas. We use Poisson panel Generalized Linear Mixed-Effects Models to estimate this relationship with data from the Fatal Encounters proje…
Linking U.S. government-sponsored redlining to early-stage white flight, 1940–1950
White flight, the rapid departure of white residents from urban neighborhoods, has had a considerable impact on the racial/ethnic composition of cities. While there is reason to suspect that government-supported policies for managing refinanced mortgages may predict this flight, this has not been sufficiently researched. This study evaluates whether maps from the New Deal era Home Owner's Loan Corporation (HOLC) predict white flight. We draw upon…
Policing a Pandemic in New York City: How Do Community Features Matter in the Location of Social Distancing Violations
This study assesses the contextual role that race/ethnicity play in predicting the enforcement of COVID-19 precautions during the early stages of the pandemic. We draw upon 311 police service calls pertaining to social distancing violations in New York City to investigate whether Black and Hispanic communities are less likely to call in social distancing violations as well as whether racial/ethnic composition influences law enforcement response. …
Determining Gentrification’s Relationship to Birth Outcomes in Metropolitan California
There is inconsistent evidence as to whether gentrification, the increase of affluent residents into low-income neighborhoods, is detrimental to health. To date, there is no systematic evidence on how gentrification may matter for a range of birth outcomes across cities with varying characteristics. We utilize California's Birth Cohort File (2009-2012), Decennial Census data, and the American Community Survey (2008-2012) to investigate the relati…
Special Issue Introduction: Gentrification, Housing, and Health Outcomes
Gentrification has been one of the most controversial and elusive concepts in the housing, community development, urban, and public health literatures in the last two decades (Brown-Saracino, 2017
Examining the long-term influence of New Deal era redlining on contemporary gentrification
The New Deal era’s Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) programme has garnered notoriety for denying Black communities financial investment based on their race through the practice known as redlining. It is possible that redlining influenced future investment in these neighbourhoods by making them more appealing to gentrifiers through creating a rent gap or increasing the percentage of non-White populations. To explore the link between HOLC redlin…
Analyzing Spatial-Temporal Impacts of Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status Variables on Covid-19 Outbreaks as Potential Social Determinants of Health
The COVID-19 pandemic is not only a medical disease outbreak but also a social inequality and health disparity problem. This study analyzed dynamic temporal and spatial associations between confirmed COVID-19 cases and socioeconomic status (SES) variables at the neighborhood level with three case studies to (1) analyze five temporal stages in the County of San Diego, California; (2) compare six U.S. metropolitan areas; and (3) compare SES associa…
Evaluating the association between Home Owners’ Loan Corporation redlining and concentrated Black poverty
Scholars have paid considerable attention to the neighborhood assessments made by the New Deal era Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC); much has been said of how poor assessments relate to long-term disadvantage for Black neighborhoods. But we know little specifically about associations between HOLC gradings and contemporary concentrated Black poverty when controlling for historic racial/ethnic composition and changing neighborhood characteristi…
The composition and stability of demographic integration through gentrification
Gentrification, the increase of land values and resident socioeconomic status in previously low-income neighborhoods, is related to the emergence of demographically mixed White neighborhoods. But questions remain as to what kinds of mixtures (White/Black, White/Hispanic, or White/Asian) gentrification facilitates and how stable they are over time. To address this limitation, this study utilizes Census and American Community Survey data for metrop…
Neighborhood Factors Associated with Covid-19 Cases in California
Measuring Gentrification’s Association With Perceived Housing Unaffordability: A Philadelphia Case Study
Gentrification, the growing presence of middle- and upper-income residents in previously low-income communities, is associated with unaffordable housing. However, there is a lack of research examining gentrification’s relationship to perceived housing unaffordability across all city neighborhoods. This study addresses this limitation by pooling three waves of the Philadelphia Health Management Corporation’s Southeastern Pennsylvania Household Hea…
Neighborhood Racial/Ethnic Composition and Medical Discrimination’s Relation to Mammograms: A Philadelphia Case Study
The Impact of Residing in a Gang Territory on Adverse Birth Outcomes: Evidence from Los Angeles
Evaluating Residential Segregation’s Relation to the Clustering of Poor Health across American Cities
Residential segregation by race/ethnicity is widely recognized as a leading source of health disparities. Not clear from past research, however, is the overall health burden cities face due to clustering brought about by segregation. This study builds on previous research by directly measuring how spatially unequal health outcomes are within segregated cities. Utilizing Census-tract data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's 500 Ci…
Evaluating the Relationship of Social Service Usage to Neighborhood Community for Older Adults: A Case Study
Older adults who live in cities can cultivate a sense of neighborhood community that mitigates problems like poverty and ill health. However, it is not certain residence in urban neighborhoods is always related to community. This study investigates the potential of social services to positively associate with neighborhood community. Offering chances for older adults to interact with each other and with service providers who render basic services …
Placing” the relation of social media participation to neighborhood community connection
While the association of social media to neighborhood community connection (belongingness, cooperation, and trust with neighbors) has been explored, the influence of neighborhoods in this association has been left out of the inquiry. It is not clear whether the association of social media participation and community connection is independent from neighborhood context. To explore the influence of neighborhoods in this relationship, we utilized hie…
Do gentrifying neighbourhoods have less community? Evidence from Philadelphia
One of the more detrimental effects of gentrification is the potential for a decreased sense of neighbourhood community. Systematic analysis of the effect of gentrification on communities has been limited. This study investigated how an individual’s sense of connection to neighbourhood community, as measured by trust, belongingness and sense of cooperation, was influenced by their residence in a gentrifying neighbourhood. We utilised hierarchical…
Are gentrifying neighborhoods more stressful? A multilevel analysis of self-rated stress
Gentrification, the increase of affluent residents into low-income neighborhoods, is thought to heighten self-rated stress, especially for residents of color. However, the relationship between gentrification and stress has not been directly measured. This study took advantage of the 2008 and 2010 waves of the Public Health Management Corporation's Southeastern Pennsylvania Household Health Survey, the 2000 Census, and the 2006-2010 American Commu…
The Effect of Segregated Cities on Ethnoracial Minority Healthcare System Distrust
Distrust of the health system is a longstanding issue for ethnoracial minorities, especially for Blacks. Not well understood, however, is the role that ethnoracial segregation within a city plays in this distrust. While segregation is typically associated with neighborhood ills, there is evidence that it can also moderate distrust. This study draws on the 2008 wave of the Public Health Management Corporation's Southeastern Pennsylvania Household …
The Association of Minority Self-Rated Health with Black versus White Gentrification
Connecting Across the Divides of Race/Ethnicity: How Does Segregation Matter
There exists an active discussion as to the effects of racial/ethnic composition on community connection. Research has suggested that racial segregation is beneficial to one’s community connection. To explore this dynamic, we investigate how an individual’s community connection is determined by the racial/ethnic segregation of his or her neighborhood, among other independent variables. We implement multilevel models using individual data from the…
Self-Rated Health and Residential Segregation: How Does Race/Ethnicity Matter
Do gentrifying neighbourhoods have less community? Evidence from Philadelphia
One of the more detrimental effects of gentrification is the potential for a decreased sense of neighbourhood community. Systematic analysis of the effect of gentrification on communities has been limited. This study investigated how an individual’s sense of connection to neighbourhood community, as measured by trust, belongingness and sense of cooperation, was influenced by their residence in a gentrifying neighbourhood. We utilised hierarchical…
Placing” the relation of social media participation to neighborhood community connection
While the association of social media to neighborhood community connection (belongingness, cooperation, and trust with neighbors) has been explored, the influence of neighborhoods in this association has been left out of the inquiry. It is not clear whether the association of social media participation and community connection is independent from neighborhood context. To explore the influence of neighborhoods in this relationship, we utilized hie…
The Space between Us: Social Geography and Politics
Declining segregation through the lens of neighborhood quality: Does middle-class and affluent status bring equality
A stop too far: How does public transportation concentration influence neighbourhood median household income
Research on US cities has connected the concentration of public transit with various neighbourhood outcomes, but it remains unclear whether public transit was more attractive to lower or higher income households. Some research found neighbourhoods with public transportation were more attractive to lower income households, likely because such households could not afford private transportation. Closer examination suggested that the type of transit …
Does Racial Segregation Make Community-Based Organizations More Territorial? Evidence from Newark, Nj, and Jersey City, Nj
This article contributes to research on urban nonprofit community-based organizations (CBOs) by exploring how high racial/ethnic segregation within a city creates a context wherein CBOs become territorial. CBOs have long been recognized for their role in providing services to the urban disadvantaged. Organizations with a strong sense of territoriality typically have robust ties with their base neighborhoods, very thorough in supporting residents …
Linking U.S. government-sponsored redlining to early-stage white flight, 1940–1950
White flight, the rapid departure of white residents from urban neighborhoods, has had a considerable impact on the racial/ethnic composition of cities. While there is reason to suspect that government-supported policies for managing refinanced mortgages may predict this flight, this has not been sufficiently researched. This study evaluates whether maps from the New Deal era Home Owner's Loan Corporation (HOLC) predict white flight. We draw upon…
The Effect of Segregated Cities on Ethnoracial Minority Healthcare System Distrust
Distrust of the health system is a longstanding issue for ethnoracial minorities, especially for Blacks. Not well understood, however, is the role that ethnoracial segregation within a city plays in this distrust. While segregation is typically associated with neighborhood ills, there is evidence that it can also moderate distrust. This study draws on the 2008 wave of the Public Health Management Corporation's Southeastern Pennsylvania Household …
Evaluating the association between Home Owners’ Loan Corporation redlining and concentrated Black poverty
Scholars have paid considerable attention to the neighborhood assessments made by the New Deal era Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC); much has been said of how poor assessments relate to long-term disadvantage for Black neighborhoods. But we know little specifically about associations between HOLC gradings and contemporary concentrated Black poverty when controlling for historic racial/ethnic composition and changing neighborhood characteristi…
Examining the long-term influence of New Deal era redlining on contemporary gentrification
The New Deal era’s Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) programme has garnered notoriety for denying Black communities financial investment based on their race through the practice known as redlining. It is possible that redlining influenced future investment in these neighbourhoods by making them more appealing to gentrifiers through creating a rent gap or increasing the percentage of non-White populations. To explore the link between HOLC redlin…
Policing a Pandemic in New York City: How Do Community Features Matter in the Location of Social Distancing Violations
This study assesses the contextual role that race/ethnicity play in predicting the enforcement of COVID-19 precautions during the early stages of the pandemic. We draw upon 311 police service calls pertaining to social distancing violations in New York City to investigate whether Black and Hispanic communities are less likely to call in social distancing violations as well as whether racial/ethnic composition influences law enforcement response. …
Analyzing Spatial-Temporal Impacts of Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status Variables on Covid-19 Outbreaks as Potential Social Determinants of Health
The COVID-19 pandemic is not only a medical disease outbreak but also a social inequality and health disparity problem. This study analyzed dynamic temporal and spatial associations between confirmed COVID-19 cases and socioeconomic status (SES) variables at the neighborhood level with three case studies to (1) analyze five temporal stages in the County of San Diego, California; (2) compare six U.S. metropolitan areas; and (3) compare SES associa…
Self-Rated Health and Residential Segregation: How Does Race/Ethnicity Matter
Does Racial Segregation Make Community-Based Organizations More Territorial? Evidence from Newark, Nj, and Jersey City, Nj
This article contributes to research on urban nonprofit community-based organizations (CBOs) by exploring how high racial/ethnic segregation within a city creates a context wherein CBOs become territorial. CBOs have long been recognized for their role in providing services to the urban disadvantaged. Organizations with a strong sense of territoriality typically have robust ties with their base neighborhoods, very thorough in supporting residents …
Declining segregation through the lens of neighborhood quality: Does middle-class and affluent status bring equality
The Association of Minority Self-Rated Health with Black versus White Gentrification
Connecting Across the Divides of Race/Ethnicity: How Does Segregation Matter
There exists an active discussion as to the effects of racial/ethnic composition on community connection. Research has suggested that racial segregation is beneficial to one’s community connection. To explore this dynamic, we investigate how an individual’s community connection is determined by the racial/ethnic segregation of his or her neighborhood, among other independent variables. We implement multilevel models using individual data from the…
A stop too far: How does public transportation concentration influence neighbourhood median household income
Research on US cities has connected the concentration of public transit with various neighbourhood outcomes, but it remains unclear whether public transit was more attractive to lower or higher income households. Some research found neighbourhoods with public transportation were more attractive to lower income households, likely because such households could not afford private transportation. Closer examination suggested that the type of transit …
Exploring the imprint of social media networks on neighborhood community through the lens of gentrification
Gentrification, the rise of affluent socioeconomic populations in economically depressed urban neighborhoods, has been accused of disrupting community in these neighborhoods. Social media networks meanwhile have been recognized not only to create new communities in neighborhoods, but are also associated with gentrification. What relation then does gentrification and social media networks have to urban communities? To explore this question, this s…
Are gentrifying neighborhoods more stressful? A multilevel analysis of self-rated stress
Gentrification, the increase of affluent residents into low-income neighborhoods, is thought to heighten self-rated stress, especially for residents of color. However, the relationship between gentrification and stress has not been directly measured. This study took advantage of the 2008 and 2010 waves of the Public Health Management Corporation's Southeastern Pennsylvania Household Health Survey, the 2000 Census, and the 2006-2010 American Commu…
The Effect of Segregated Cities on Ethnoracial Minority Healthcare System Distrust
Distrust of the health system is a longstanding issue for ethnoracial minorities, especially for Blacks. Not well understood, however, is the role that ethnoracial segregation within a city plays in this distrust. While segregation is typically associated with neighborhood ills, there is evidence that it can also moderate distrust. This study draws on the 2008 wave of the Public Health Management Corporation's Southeastern Pennsylvania Household …
Muslim–Non-Muslim Locational Attainment in Philadelphia: A New Fault Line in Residential Inequality
This study examines Muslim–non-Muslim disparities in locational attainment. We pool data from the 2004, 2006, and 2008 waves of the Public Health Management Corporation’s Southeastern Pennsylvania Household Survey. These data contain respondents’ religious identities and are geocoded at the census-tract level, allowing us to merge American Community Survey data and examine neighborhood-level outcomes to gauge respondents’ locational attainment. N…
The Space between Us: Social Geography and Politics
Evaluating Residential Segregation’s Relation to the Clustering of Poor Health across American Cities
Residential segregation by race/ethnicity is widely recognized as a leading source of health disparities. Not clear from past research, however, is the overall health burden cities face due to clustering brought about by segregation. This study builds on previous research by directly measuring how spatially unequal health outcomes are within segregated cities. Utilizing Census-tract data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's 500 Ci…
Evaluating the Relationship of Social Service Usage to Neighborhood Community for Older Adults: A Case Study
Older adults who live in cities can cultivate a sense of neighborhood community that mitigates problems like poverty and ill health. However, it is not certain residence in urban neighborhoods is always related to community. This study investigates the potential of social services to positively associate with neighborhood community. Offering chances for older adults to interact with each other and with service providers who render basic services …
Placing” the relation of social media participation to neighborhood community connection
While the association of social media to neighborhood community connection (belongingness, cooperation, and trust with neighbors) has been explored, the influence of neighborhoods in this association has been left out of the inquiry. It is not clear whether the association of social media participation and community connection is independent from neighborhood context. To explore the influence of neighborhoods in this relationship, we utilized hie…
Do gentrifying neighbourhoods have less community? Evidence from Philadelphia
One of the more detrimental effects of gentrification is the potential for a decreased sense of neighbourhood community. Systematic analysis of the effect of gentrification on communities has been limited. This study investigated how an individual’s sense of connection to neighbourhood community, as measured by trust, belongingness and sense of cooperation, was influenced by their residence in a gentrifying neighbourhood. We utilised hierarchical…
Measuring Gentrification’s Association With Perceived Housing Unaffordability: A Philadelphia Case Study
Gentrification, the growing presence of middle- and upper-income residents in previously low-income communities, is associated with unaffordable housing. However, there is a lack of research examining gentrification’s relationship to perceived housing unaffordability across all city neighborhoods. This study addresses this limitation by pooling three waves of the Philadelphia Health Management Corporation’s Southeastern Pennsylvania Household Hea…
Neighborhood Racial/Ethnic Composition and Medical Discrimination’s Relation to Mammograms: A Philadelphia Case Study
The Impact of Residing in a Gang Territory on Adverse Birth Outcomes: Evidence from Los Angeles
The composition and stability of demographic integration through gentrification
Gentrification, the increase of land values and resident socioeconomic status in previously low-income neighborhoods, is related to the emergence of demographically mixed White neighborhoods. But questions remain as to what kinds of mixtures (White/Black, White/Hispanic, or White/Asian) gentrification facilitates and how stable they are over time. To address this limitation, this study utilizes Census and American Community Survey data for metrop…
Neighborhood Factors Associated with Covid-19 Cases in California
Determining Gentrification’s Relationship to Birth Outcomes in Metropolitan California
There is inconsistent evidence as to whether gentrification, the increase of affluent residents into low-income neighborhoods, is detrimental to health. To date, there is no systematic evidence on how gentrification may matter for a range of birth outcomes across cities with varying characteristics. We utilize California's Birth Cohort File (2009-2012), Decennial Census data, and the American Community Survey (2008-2012) to investigate the relati…
Special Issue Introduction: Gentrification, Housing, and Health Outcomes
Gentrification has been one of the most controversial and elusive concepts in the housing, community development, urban, and public health literatures in the last two decades (Brown-Saracino, 2017
Examining the long-term influence of New Deal era redlining on contemporary gentrification
The New Deal era’s Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) programme has garnered notoriety for denying Black communities financial investment based on their race through the practice known as redlining. It is possible that redlining influenced future investment in these neighbourhoods by making them more appealing to gentrifiers through creating a rent gap or increasing the percentage of non-White populations. To explore the link between HOLC redlin…
Analyzing Spatial-Temporal Impacts of Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status Variables on Covid-19 Outbreaks as Potential Social Determinants of Health
The COVID-19 pandemic is not only a medical disease outbreak but also a social inequality and health disparity problem. This study analyzed dynamic temporal and spatial associations between confirmed COVID-19 cases and socioeconomic status (SES) variables at the neighborhood level with three case studies to (1) analyze five temporal stages in the County of San Diego, California; (2) compare six U.S. metropolitan areas; and (3) compare SES associa…
Evaluating the association between Home Owners’ Loan Corporation redlining and concentrated Black poverty
Scholars have paid considerable attention to the neighborhood assessments made by the New Deal era Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC); much has been said of how poor assessments relate to long-term disadvantage for Black neighborhoods. But we know little specifically about associations between HOLC gradings and contemporary concentrated Black poverty when controlling for historic racial/ethnic composition and changing neighborhood characteristi…
Sociology (28 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (26 works) · Geography (22 works) · Demography (18 works) · Ethnic group (18 works) · Census (15 works) · Economics (15 works) · Economic growth (14 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (14 works) · Political science (14 works)