Squeezed in and pushed out: dual and contradictory displacements in Santa Ana, CA

What is it about?

An analysis of original survey, eviction, and secondary data that suggest a dual process of overcrowding ("squeezing in") and displacement ("pushed out") in the Lacy neighborhood of Santa Ana, CA

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Why is it important?

Most displacement research, especially investigations of gentrification, reduced the operationalization of displacement to a uniquely spatial event of outward movement or population decline. Our analysis in this work suggests that gentrification, when combined with regional exclusion, may produce different and contradictory spatial movements. On one hand, outward spatial movement is recognized as occurring through eviction and the housing market. However, on the other hand, we also find that households in the neighborhood are extremely overcrowded. We see these two, contradictory forms of displacement, as complementary forms of gentrification-induced displacement.