Do Neighborhoods Matter and Why?

Publication Date: December 2003

Publisher: Furman Center for Real Estate

Author(s): Ingrid Gould Ellen; Margery Turner

Research Area: Social conditions

Keywords: neighborhoods; poverty; segregation; Community and Economic Development

Type: Chapter

Abstract:

“Choosing a Better Life?” is the first distillation of years of research on the MTO project, the largest rigorously designed social experiment to investigate the consequences of moving low-income public housing residents to low-poverty neighborhoods. In this book, leading social scientists and policy experts examine the legislative and political foundations of the project, analyze the effects of MTO on lives of the families involved, and explore lessons learned from this important piece of U.S. social policy