Moving to opportunity : the story of an American experiment to fight ghetto poverty / Xavier de Souza Briggs, Susan J. Popkin, John Goering.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Briggs, Xavier de Souza.

Contributor:

Popkin, Susan J.

Goering, John M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Housing policy--United States.

Housing policy.

Urban poor--Government policy--United States.

Urban poor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

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 of Balti

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-988943-0

0-19-985275-8

1-282-50110-0

9786612501104

0-19-974186-7

OCLC:

593240225