Taesoo Song

Taesoo Song is a Ph.D. Candidate in City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. His research leverages quantitative and geospatial methods to investigate how housing policies and planning influence residential mobility and neighborhood change for low-income and minority households in American cities. Taesoo's dissertation examines the housing experiences of Asian Americans, challenging the prevailing narrative that they face minimal barriers in the housing market. His work focuses on: 1) ethnic, class, and locational variations in Asian homeownership, 2) the impact of single-family and multi-family housing supply on suburban segregation among Asian Americans, and 3) foreign homebuyer restrictions in Anglosphere countries and their exclusionary narratives surrounding Asian immigration and homeownership. Taesoo has worked as a Graduate Student Researcher for the Terner Center for Housing Innovation and the Urban Displacement Project at UC Berkeley.