| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 305 pages) : illustrations |
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data file rda |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1 Places and Lives; 2 Ghetto Poverty Before and After Katrina; 3 Great Expectations and Muddling Through: Designing and Launching the Experiment; 4 The Unequal Geography of Opportunity; 5 Moving to Security; 6 When Your Neighborhood Is Not Your Community; 7 Struggling to Stay Out of High-Poverty Neighborhoods: Finding Good Housing; 8 Finding Good Schools; 9 Finding Work; 10 Lessons; Appendix: Studying Moving to Opportunity; Notes; Works Cited; Index. |
| Summary |
If "bad" neighborhoods are truly bad for children and families, especially the minority poor, can moving to better neighborhoods lead them to better lives? Might these families escape poverty altogether, beyond having a better quality of life to help them cope with being poor? Federal policymakers and planners thought so, on both counts, and in 1994, they launched Moving to Opportunity. The 80 million social experiment enrolled nearly 5,000 very low-income, mostly black and Hispanic families, many of them on welfare, who were living in public housing in the inner-city neighborhoods. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Housing policy -- United States.
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Urban poor -- Government policy -- United States.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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Housing policy. (OCoLC)fst00962432
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Urban poor -- Government policy.
(OCoLC)fst01162520
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic book.
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| Added Author |
Popkin, Susan J.
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Goering, John M.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Briggs, Xavier de Souza. Moving to opportunity. New York : Oxford University Press, 2010 9780195393712 (DLC) 2009023187 (OCoLC)423214528 |
| ISBN |
9780199741861 (electronic bk.) |
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0199741867 (electronic bk.) |
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