Moving to Opportunity for Fair Housing Demonstration Program: Current
Status and Initial Findings (September 1, 1999, 71 p.)
HUD has completed the enrollment and lease-up phases of the Moving to
Opportunity (MTO) demonstration, a residential mobility program with the
goal of reducing concentrations of poverty and moving public housing
families to self-sufficiency in better neighborhoods - with safer streets,
better schools, and more. Over 4,500 families have participated in MTO.
Moving to Opportunity for Fair Housing Demonstration Program: Current
Status and Initial Findings concludes that allowing residents to move
from highly concentrated areas of poverty leads to wider opportunities for
themselves and their children.
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