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Who Drives Neighborhood Income Growth? An Analysis of New Versus Long-Term Residents in the Northern California Megaregion

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Journal of Planning Education and Research

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Abstract

Journal of Planning Education and Research, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 170-184, March 2026.
Increases in neighborhood income are often attributed to the in-migration of higher income people. We use individual tax records from 1994 to 2015 to show a more nuanced finding. New residents generally have lower incomes than existing residents when they ...