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Book Review: Moving to Opportunity: The Story of an American Experiment to Fight Ghetto Poverty

Book Review: Moving to Opportunity: The Story of an American Experiment to Fight Ghetto Poverty Book Reviews MOVING TO OPPORTUNITY:THE STORY OF AN AMERICAN EXPERIMENT TO FIGHT GHETTO POVERTY, by Xavier de Souza Briggs, Susan J. Popkin, and John Goering. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. 305 pp. ISBN: 978–0-19–539284-5 ($19.95 Paper) Reviewed by W. Dennis Keating Cleveland State University From 1994 to 1998, an ambitious social science experiment called “Moving to Opportu- nity” (MTO) was conducted by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). It was designed to test a residential mobility policy allowing poor federally sub- sidized tenants to move from high-poverty (40 percent or more) urban neighborhoods to low-poverty (10 percent or less) neighborhoods, mainly from inner city ghettos to older suburbs. Five cities—Boston, Baltimore, Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles—were chosen as the sites for this $80 million program supporting almost 5,000 participating households, mostly black and Hispanic. Participating families were randomly assigned to three groups: first, the “experimental” group that would receive relocation assistance counseling and housing vouchers that could only be used in low-poverty neighborhoods; second, the “comparison” group that would only receive a housing voucher; and third, a “control” group that would continue to receive assistance in the form of a public housing unit. The http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png City and Community SAGE

Book Review: Moving to Opportunity: The Story of an American Experiment to Fight Ghetto Poverty

City and Community , Volume 11 (2): 1 – Jun 1, 2012

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© 2012 American Sociological Association
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1535-6841
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1540-6040
DOI
10.1111/j.1540-6040.2012.01400.x
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Book Reviews MOVING TO OPPORTUNITY:THE STORY OF AN AMERICAN EXPERIMENT TO FIGHT GHETTO POVERTY, by Xavier de Souza Briggs, Susan J. Popkin, and John Goering. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. 305 pp. ISBN: 978–0-19–539284-5 ($19.95 Paper) Reviewed by W. Dennis Keating Cleveland State University From 1994 to 1998, an ambitious social science experiment called “Moving to Opportu- nity” (MTO) was conducted by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). It was designed to test a residential mobility policy allowing poor federally sub- sidized tenants to move from high-poverty (40 percent or more) urban neighborhoods to low-poverty (10 percent or less) neighborhoods, mainly from inner city ghettos to older suburbs. Five cities—Boston, Baltimore, Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles—were chosen as the sites for this $80 million program supporting almost 5,000 participating households, mostly black and Hispanic. Participating families were randomly assigned to three groups: first, the “experimental” group that would receive relocation assistance counseling and housing vouchers that could only be used in low-poverty neighborhoods; second, the “comparison” group that would only receive a housing voucher; and third, a “control” group that would continue to receive assistance in the form of a public housing unit. The

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