Dr. JungHo Park is an Associate Research Fellow at the Department of Urban Planning and Design Research in the Seoul Institute. He also serves as a non-resident research associate at Population Dynamics Research Group at the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California. His research is based in the field of housing demography, focusing on housing affordability, residential mobility, living arrangements, and federally subsidized housing. His  recent research is centered on urban changes and socioeconomic hardships during and after the COVID-19 pandemic in the context of the United States and South Korea. He holds his Ph.D. in Urban Planning and Development from the University of Southern California. Publications: 

Myers, D., & Park, J. (2019). A Constant Quartile Mismatch Indicator of Changing Rental Affordability in U.S. Metropolitan Areas, 2000 to 2016. Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research, 21(1), 163–200. https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscpe/vol21num1/article7.html

Aguila, E., Park, J. H., & Vega, A. (2020). Living Arrangements and Supplemental Income Programs for Older Adults in Mexico. Demography, 57(4), 1345–1368. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-020-00879-3

Park, J. (2021). Who is hardest hit by a pandemic? Racial disparities in COVID-19 hardship in the U.S. International Journal of Urban Sciences, 25(2), 149–177. https://doi.org/10.1080/12265934.2021.1877566

Park, J., & Kim, B. (2021). Associations of Small Business Closure and Reduced Urban Mobility with Mental Health Problems in COVID-19 Pandemic: A National Representative Sample Study. Journal of Urban Health, 98(1), 13–26. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-020-00511-0

Noh, S., & Park, J. (2021). Café and Restaurant under My Home: Predicting Urban Commercialization through Machine Learning. Sustainability, 13(10), 5699. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13105699

Myers, D., Park, J., & Cho, S. (2021). Housing shortages and the new downturn of residential mobility in the US. Housing Studies, Online First, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2021.1929860

Park, J., & Ahn, Y. (2022). Government Employees’ Experience and Expectation of COVID-19 Hardships: The Moderating Role of Gender and Race in the United States. American Review of Public Administration, 52(1), 15–35. https://doi.org/10.1177/02750740211049280

Park, J., Choi, J., & Kim, B. (2022). COVID-19 pandemic and mental health problems of adults in United States: Mediating roles of cognitive concerns and behavioral changes. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-022-02265-3