Poverty and Place
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A growing body of evidence demonstrates the impact of living in different types of neighborhoods, particularly on children. This page contains CBPP resources that explore this topic, as well as videos from a forum we hosted in November 2015, featuring presentations by Harvard economist Raj Chetty on his groundbreaking mobility research; a talk with Office of Management and Budget Director and former Housing Secretary Shaun Donovan; and discussions with leading experts on housing, poverty, education, and economic policy.
Read more here:
- Importance of Place-focused Policies to Expand Access to Opportunity
- How Neighborhoods Affect Upward Mobility
- Using Housing Policy to Expand Access to Neighborhood of Opportunity
- Promising Strategies Focused on People in Neighborhoods of Concentrated Poverty
- Putting It All Together: Key implications for Anti-Poverty and Housing Policy
Realizing the Housing Voucher Program’s Potential to Enable Families to Move to Better Neighborhoods
Housing Choice Vouchers help families afford decent, stable housing, avoid homelessness, and make ends meet. But they could do much more to help children grow up in safer, low-poverty neighborhoods with good schools.
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Housing Vouchers Can Help Moms Raise Their Kids in Safe Neighborhoods
MAY 7, 2015 -
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Housing Vouchers Help Families Live in Better Neighborhoods — But They Can Do More
OCTOBER 17, 2014 -
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Neighborhoods Do Matter to Kids’ Success
NOVEMBER 3, 2014
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Neighborhood-Based Subsidy Caps Can Make Housing Vouchers More Efficient and Effective
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4 Ways to Help More Families Use Vouchers to Live in Low-Poverty Neighborhoods
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Improving Children’s Chances of a Better Life
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What Housing Vouchers Mean to Poor Minority Families, Part 2: Help in Avoiding Extreme-Poverty Neighborhoods
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What Housing Vouchers Mean to Minority Families, Part 1: They’re Better Able to Live in Low-Poverty Neighborhoods
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One Way to Help Poor Kids Do Better in School: Help Their Families Move to Better Neighborhoods