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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 Info. Washington, D.C. : Urban Institute Press, [2003]
©2003

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Description xvi, 421 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Pt. 1. Introduction, overview, and foundations. What have we learned about housing mobility and poverty deconcentration? / John Goering, Judith D. Feins, and 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 -- Pt. 2. Research findings from the five MTO sites. The effects of MTO on educational opportunities in Baltimore / Helen F. Ladd and Jens Ludwig -- The effects of MTO on children and parents in Baltimore / Jens Ludwig, Greg J. Duncan, and Helen F. Ladd -- Boston site findings : the early impacts of Moving to Opportunity / Lawrence F. Katz, Jeffrey R. Kling, and Jeffrey B. Liebman -- New York City site findings : the early impacts of Moving to Opportunity on children and youth / Tama Leventhal and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn -- Los Angeles site findings / Maria Hanratty, Sarah McLanahan, and Becky Petit -- New places, new faces : an analysis of neighborhoods and social ties among MTO movers in Chicago / Emily Rosenbaum, Laura Harris, and Nancy A. Denton -- Pt. 3. Research and policy implications. Do neighborhoods matter and why? / Ingrid Gould Ellen and Margery Austin Turner -- Neighborhood poverty, housing assistance, and children's educational attainment / Sandra Newman, Joseph Harkness, and Wei-Jun J. Yeung -- MTO's impact on sending and receiving neighborhoods / George Galster -- Comments on future research and housing policy / John Goering.
Subject Discrimination in housing -- Prevention -- Government policy -- United States -- Case studies.
Discrimination in housing -- Prevention -- Government policy.
United States.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Discrimination in housing.
Residential mobility -- Government policy -- United States -- Case studies.
Residential mobility -- Government policy.
Residential mobility.
Housing policy -- United States -- Case studies.
Housing policy.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Added Author Goering, John M.
Feins, Judith D., 1947-
ISBN 0877667136 alkaline paper