Rebecca M. Blank

Dennis P. Rosenbaum

Susan J. Popkin

Victoria E. Gwiasda

Lynn M. Olson

Larry Buron

Interviews residents, community leaders, and Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) staff to paint a portrait of what life is like among the gunfire and dangerous housing conditions at three CHA housing projects.

Crime and the Tragedy of Public Housing in Chicago

The Hidden War

Xavier de Souza Briggs

John Goering

Moving to Opportunity tackles one of America's most enduring dilemmas: the great, unresolved question of how to overcome persistent ghetto poverty. Launched in 1994, the MTO program took a largely untested approach: helping families move from high-poverty, inner-city public housing to low-poverty neighborhoods, some in the suburbs. The book's innovative methodology 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. As the authors make clear, for all its ambition, MTO is a uniquely American experiment, and this book brings home its powerful lessons for policymakers and advocates, scholars, students, journalists, and all who share a deep concern for opportunity and inequality in our country.

The Story of an American Experiment to Fight Ghetto Poverty

Moving to Opportunity

Susan J. Popkin

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