Revised federal housing subsidies offer mobility to low-income residents, By Carey L. Biron, February 13, 2018, Christian Science Monitor: “Tiara Moore, a public school bus aide, has been living with her uncle and young daughter in a high-crime, high-poverty part of Chicago – and she’s wanted to move. Her top choice is DuPage County, just outside Chicago and closer to where her mother lives, but moving has not been easy because the size of the housing assistance she receives from the federal government has limited her choices…”
Tag: Mobility
Concentrated Poverty in US Cities
Cleveland metro ranks in Top 10 in U.S. for concentrated poverty: Brookings, By Olivera Perkins, March 31, 2016, Cleveland Plain Dealer: “The Cleveland metro area is in the Top 10 nationally for the percentage of residents living in concentrated poverty, according to an analysisreleased today by the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. The Cleveland-Elyria metro — which includes Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain and Medina counties — ranks ninth among the 100 largest metro areas in the nation. Toledo, the only other Ohio metro in the Top 10, ranks third. Concentrated poverty differs from the overall poverty rate. It looks at whether poor people live in communities where there are high concentrations of people who are also poor. People in poverty have a better chance at upward mobility if they live in economically diverse neighborhoods because they potentially have access to more opportunities, said Natalie Holmes, a research analyst in Brookings’ Metropolitan Policy Program, who co-authored the report…”
Upward Mobility
The numbers add up to this: Less and less opportunity for poor kids, By Marilyn Geewax, March 10, 2015, National Public Radio: “In this country, all children are supposed to have a shot at success — a chance to jump ‘from rags to riches’ in one generation. Even if riches remain out of reach, then the belief has been that every hard-working American should be able to go from poverty to the middle class. On Tuesday, a book and a separate study are being released — both turning up evidence that the one-generation leap is getting harder to accomplish in an economy so tied to education, technological know-how and networking…”