Project Safe Neighborhoods in Chicago: Looking Back a Decade Later

Fifteen years later: can residential mobility programs provide a long-term escape from neighborhood segregation, crime, and poverty?

We examined whether the Gautreaux residential mobility program, which moved poor black volunteer families who were living in inner-city Chicago into more-affluent and integrated neighborhoods, produced long-run improvements in the neighborhood environments of the participants. We found that although all the participants moved in the 6 to 22 years since their initial placements, they continued t...

Explaining variation in health status across space and time: implications for racial and ethnic disparities in self-rated health.

We use the Metropolitan Community Information Center-Metro Survey-a serial cross section of adults residing in the City of Chicago, USA, conducted from 1991 through 1999-in combination with 1990 census data to simultaneously examine the extent to which self-rated health varies across Chicago neighborhoods and across time. Three-level hierarchical logit models are employed to decompose individua...

ASEM in its Tenth Year Looking Back, Looking Forward An evaluation of ASEM in its first decade and an exploration of its future possibilities

An evaluation of ASEM in its first decade and an exploration of its future possibilities

Detroit Project Safe Neighborhoods: Final Project Report

Destination Effects: Residential Mobility and Trajectories of Adolescent Violence in a Stratified Metropolis.

Two landmark policy interventions to improve the lives of youth through neighborhood mobility-the Gautreaux program in Chicago and the Moving to Opportunity experiments in five cities-have produced conflicting results and created a puzzle with broad implications: Do residential moves between neighborhoods increase or decrease violence, or both? To address this question we analyze data from a su...