Intervening in the residential mobility process: Neighborhood outcomes for low-income populations
Intervening in the residential mobility process: Neighborhood outcomes for low-income populations
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DOI：
10.1073/pnas.0507308102
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发表时间：
2005-10-25
影响因子：
11.1
通讯作者：
Clark, WAV
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作者：
Clark, WAV
社区已经成为人们关注的焦点，人们问社区如何影响居住在社区内的家庭。目前一些联邦政策的一个工作假设是，在帮助下，家庭可以摆脱贫困社区，改变他们的空间环境。这一点有多正确，特别是对低收入家庭来说，改变社区是否有可衡量的好处？这项研究使用了住房和城市发展部发起的“向机会迁移”方案的数据，以测试通过住房券进行的政策干预是否有助于从低贫困地区迁移到综合居住环境。通过研究样本最初和随后地点的邻里人口统计，可以评估减少贫困和增加融合的目标是否成功。尽管该计划在帮助家庭生活在较低贫困社区方面取得了一些成功，但这里的研究结果强调了干预住房选择和流动性等动态过程以创造政策成果的难度。
Neighborhoods have become the focus of questions about how they affect the families that live within them. A current working assumption of some federal policies is that, with help, households can escape poverty neighborhoods and change their spatial context. How true is this, especially for low-income households, and does changing neighborhoods have measurable benefits? The study uses data from the Moving to Opportunity program, initiated by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, to test whether policy interventions by means of housing vouchers have aided moves away from low-poverty areas and into integrated residential settings. By examining the neighborhood demography of the initial and subsequent locations of the samples, it is possible to assess the success of the objectives of decreasing poverty and increasing integration. Although the program has shown some success in assisting households to live in lower-poverty neighborhoods, the findings here emphasize just how difficult it is to intervene in dynamic processes such as housing choice and mobility to create policy outcomes.