I am a PhD candidate in Sociology and Social Policy at Princeton University. I will begin as a Postdoctoral Associate at Brown University’s Population Studies and Training Center in July 2026. I am a mixed-methods scholar whose research interests broadly include urban sociology, housing, immigration, poverty and inequality, and social policy. You can find my work in Social Forces, PNAS, and Social Service Review. My dissertation is supported by the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy.

My work draws on large administrative datasets, surveys, and in-depth interviews to understand how the housing market produces and perpetuates economic inequality. One strand of research looks at how market actors (e.g. landlords, property managers, developers) interact with laws and public policies to reify disparities in housing outcomes.

Another line of inquiry documents nativity differences in rental outcomes. I study how local housing dynamics in immigrant neighborhoods shape experiences of immigrant integration and broader processes of neighborhood change.

I hold a B.S. in Business from NYU’s Stern School of Business and a M.A. from Princeton University. Prior to graduate school, I helped build the first ever dataset of evictions in America with the Eviction Lab. I am currently a GRADFutures Fellow at New America’s Future of Land and Housing Team. I also serve as the East Asian Languages team co-lead at Respond Crisis Translation.

Email me at: lleung@princeton.edu