Moving to Opportunity

Katrin B. Anacker, Urban Studies a stellar study based on a very important social experiment ... fascinating because the authors present vignettes of the lives of the study participants to illustrate their findings, which are based on rigorous research. What makes the book exceptional is that the authors compare and contrast middle-class arguments (which many of the middle-class readers of this book will hold) with working-class reality.

<br>Xavier de Souza Briggs is Associate Director of the Office of Management and Budget in the White House and Associate Professor of Sociology and Urban Planning (on leave) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A sociologist by training, his award-winning research focuses on leadership and democratic institutions, inequality, and racial and ethnic diversity in cities. A former faculty member at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, his books include The Geography of Opportunity and Democracy as Problem Solving. He is founder and director of The Community Problem-SolvingProject @ MIT and Working Smarter in Community Development, two popular and innovative online resources for people and institutions worldwide, and his views have appeared in the New York Times, Salon.com, National Public Radio, Boston Globe, and other major media. <br>Susan J. Popkin is Director of the Urban Institute's Program on Neighborhoods and Youth Development. She is a nationally recognized expert on assisted housing, mobility, and the "hard to house." Dr. Popkin is the lead author of The Hidden War, has written numerous papers and book chapters on housing and poverty-related issues, and is co-author of the recent book, Public Housing and The Legacy of Segregation. <br>John Goering is a Professor at the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College and is on the doctoral faculty of the City University of New York. He is the author or editor of seven books on housing, race and public policy. While at the Office of Policy Development and Research at HUD he helped design and implement MTO, and co-edited the first collection of analyses, Choosing a Better Life?, on this demonstration.<br>

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 Good Schools; 9. Finding Work; 10. Lessons; APPENDIX. STUDYING MOVING TO OPPORTUNITY; WORKS CITED