Taesoo Song

Taesoo Song is a Ph.D. Candidate in City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. He studies the nexus of housing policy, neighborhood change, and residential outcomes for low-income and minority households, particularly in high-cost areas. Taesoo's dissertation reassesses the prevailing narrative that Asian Americans face minimal barriers in the housing market. He investigates the ethnic, class, and locational diversity among Asian Americans and how these factors influence their homeownership rates and housing burdens. He then examines the impact of restrictive local zoning regulations and recent federal and state-level legislation targeting property ownership by non-citizens, particularly the Chinese, to illustrate how policy and planning intersect with the diversity of Asian American experiences to shape their housing outcomes. Taesoo has worked with the Terner Center for Housing Innovation and the Urban Displacement Project at UC Berkeley, as well as the Seoul Institute in South Korea.