A Cross-Site Analysis of Initial Moving to Opportunity Demonstration Results

John Goering, Judith D. Feins and Todd M. Richardson

Journal of Housing Research, 2002, vol. 13, issue 1, 1-30

Abstract: This article provides the first systematic overview of the implementation and early research findings from the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) for Fair Housing research demonstration. MTO is a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development-funded, experimentally designed demonstration that tests how changing neighborhood opportunities affect the life chances of public housing residents from deeply poor communities. MTO randomly assigned 4,608 families to one of three groups (a treatment group, a comparison group, and a control group) between 1994 and 1998.Implementation findings address the characteristics of participating families, differential lease-up rates, and the characteristics of receiving neighborhoods. Findings from single-site research studies show lower levels offear, improved health outcomes, higher educational test scores, and lower rates of violent juvenile crime. There is no evidence to date of early effects on wages or employment. The article concludes with a discussion of future research.

Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1080/2167034X.2002.12461349

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