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BL
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712120
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b534309
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| Main Entry
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Briggs, Xavier de Souza
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| Title & Author
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Moving to Opportunity : : the story of an American experiment to fight ghetto poverty /\ Xavier de Souza Briggs, Susan J. Popkin, John Goering
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2010
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ix, 305 pages :: illustrations ;; 25 cm
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| ISBN
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0195392841 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 0195393716 (hardback : alk. paper)
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: 9780195392845 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 9780195393712 (hardback : alk. paper)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Places and lives -- Ghetto poverty before and after Katrina -- Great expectations and muddling through designing and launching the experiment -- The unequal geography of opportunity -- Moving to security -- When your neighborhood is not your community -- Struggling to stay out of high-poverty neighborhoods : finding good housing -- Finding good schools -- Finding work -- Lessons -- Appendix : Studying moving to Opportunity
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| Abstract
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Launched in 1994, the Moving to Opportunity program took a largely untested approach to poverty: helping families move from high-poverty, inner-city public housing to low-poverty neighborhoods. The book emphasizes the voices and choices of the program's participants but also rigorously analyzes the changing structures of regional opportunity and constraint that shaped the fortunes of those who "signed up." It shines a light on the hopes, surprises, achievements, and limitations of a major social experiment.--
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Moving to Opportunity (Program)
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Housing policy-- United States
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Urban poor-- Government policy-- United States
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| Dewey Classification
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363.5/80973
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HD7293.B75 2010
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| Added Entry
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Goering, John M
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Popkin, Susan J
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