03003nam 2200637Ia 450 991045880450332120200520144314.00-19-988943-00-19-985275-81-282-50110-097866125011040-19-974186-7(CKB)2670000000011997(EBL)497592(OCoLC)593240225(SSID)ssj0000340602(PQKBManifestationID)11243848(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000340602(PQKBWorkID)10387542(PQKB)11498253(MiAaPQ)EBC497592(Au-PeEL)EBL497592(CaPaEBR)ebr10372144(CaONFJC)MIL250110(EXLCZ)99267000000001199720090619d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMoving to opportunity[electronic resource] the story of an American experiment to fight ghetto poverty /Xavier de Souza Briggs, Susan J. Popkin, John GoeringNew York Oxford University Press20101 online resource (318 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-539284-1 0-19-539371-6 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; IndexIf ""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 BaltiHousing policyUnited StatesUrban poorGovernment policyUnited StatesElectronic books.Housing policyUrban poorGovernment policy363.5/80973Briggs Xavier de Souza882185Popkin Susan J926665Goering John M926666MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458804503321Moving to opportunity2080840UNINA