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Title

Choosing a better life? : evaluating the Moving to Opportunity social experiment / edited by John Goering and Judith D. Feins.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Urban Institute Press, c2003.

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Additional Authors

• Goering, John M.
• Feins, Judith D., 1947-

Description

xvi, 421 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

This article evaluates the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) program run by HUD in the USA since 1994. This was a rental assistance program that offered participating families a chance to move out of public housing projects located in deeply impoverished neighbourhoods in five US cities. It examines the consequences for very low income public housing residents of moving to a low poverty neighbourhood.

Subject

• Discrimination in housing > Government policy > United States > Case studies
• Residential mobility > Government policy > United States > Case studies
• Housing policy > United States > Case studies

Genre/Form

Case studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part I. Introduction, overview, and foundations -- What have we learned about housing mobility and poverty deconcentration? / John Goering, Judith D. Feins, Todd M. Richardson -- Political origins and opposition / John Goering -- Locational constraint, housing counseling, and successful lease-up / Mark Shroder -- A cross-site analysis of MTO's locational impacts / Judith D. Feins -- Part II. Research findings from the five MTO sites -- The effects of MTO on educational opportunities in Baltimore / Helen F. Ladd, Jens Ludwig -- The effects of MTO on children and parents in Baltimore / Jens Ludwig, Greg J. Duncan, Helen F. Ladd -- Boston site findings : the early impacts of Moving to Opportunity / Lawrence F. Katz, Jeffrey R. Kling, Jeffrey B. Liebman -- New York City site findings : the early impacts of Moving to Opportunity on children and youth / Tama Leventhal, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn -- Los Angeles site findings / Maria Hanratty, Sarah McLanahan, Becky Petit -- New places, new faces : an analysis of neighborhoods and social ties among MTO movers in Chicago / Emily Rosenbaum, Laura Harris, Nancy A. Denton -- Part III. Research and policy implications -- Do neighborhoods matter and why? / Ingrid Gould Ellen, Margery Austin Turner -- Neighborhood poverty, housing assistance, and children's educational attainment / Sandra Newman, Joseph Harkness, Wei-Jun J. Yeung -- MTO's impact on sending and receiving neighborhoods / George Galster -- Comments on future research and housing policy / John Goering.

ISBN

0877667136 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003007938

OCLC

• 52070779
• SCSB-10745572

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library