Moving to opportunity : the story of an American experiment to fight ghetto poverty /

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 poli...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Briggs, Xavier de Souza
Otros Autores: Popkin, Susan J., Goering, John M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Temas:
Housing policy > United States.
Urban poor > Government policy > United States.
Logement > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Pauvres en milieu urbain > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
Housing policy
Urban poor > Government policy
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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