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Title:

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

Publisher:

Urban Institute Press,

Copyright Date:

c2003

Description:

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

Subject:

Discrimination in housing--Government policy--Government policy--United States--Case studies.
Residential mobility--Government policy--United States--Case studies.
Housing policy--United States--Case studies.

Other Authors:

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

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

9780877667131 (alk. paper)
0877667136 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)52070779

LCCN:

2003007938

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)