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

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Goering, John M.
Feins, Judith D., 1947-
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Urban Institute Press, [2003], ©2003.
Subjects:
Discrimination in housing > Prevention > Government policy > United States > Case studies.
Residential mobility > Government policy > United States > Case studies.
Housing policy > United States > Case studies.
Genre:
Case studies.
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Physical Description:xvi, 421 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book
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.