If 'bad' neighborhoods are truly bad for children and families, especially the minority poor, can moving to better neighborhoods lead them to better lives?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 themon welfare, who were living in public housing in the inner-city neighborhoodsof Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York. Moving to Opportunity provides a unique account of one of the largest housing experiments in history and its effects on lives of the children and families who participated. MTO is a uniquely American experiment, and this book brings home its lessons forall who share a deep concern for opportunity and inequality in a changing nation. INDICE: Preface; 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 GoodSchools; 9.: Finding Work; 10.: Lessons; Appendix. Studying Moving to Opportunity; Works Cited
- ISBN: 978-0-19-539284-5
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 318
- Fecha Publicación: 25/03/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés