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

• Autore: Briggs Xavier de Souza
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (318 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.5/80973
• Soggetto topico: Housing policy - United States; Urban poor - Government policy - United States
• Altri autori: PopkinSusan J GoeringJohn M
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Moving to opportunity
• ISBN: 0-19-988943-0; 0-19-985275-8; 1-282-50110-0; 9786612501104; 0-19-974186-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792364503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II