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- W289557050 abstract "AbstractPolicies that support mixed-income housing and neighborhoods are based on the assumption that most lower income families would both choose and benefit from moving to opportunity neighborhoods. Opponents of housing dispersal policies have challenged this assumption as unrealistic, oversimplistic, or incorrect. Both sides of this debate, however, share a fundamental assumption about the mobility of very low-income households that may be problematic. Each perspective assumes a degree of agency on the part of very low-income households in which housing outcomes are the result of considered choices among a set of alternatives. In this article, we examine the role of neighborhood environment in the mobility decisions of a group of very low-income families. We find that the assumption of choice among alternatives does not hold widely for the very low-income families in our study. Relationships, rather than neighborhoods, appear to be the driving factor in residential mobility and decisionmaking. As a result, neighborhood environment often plays a marginal role in the families' assessment of their own housing and in their mobility decisions. We discuss the implications of housing policies that, although seeking to improve the conditions for very low-income families, disrupt vital social support systems that help families meet basic needs.IntroductionMuch public policy attention during the past 20 years has been directed toward the neighborhood environment of very low-income families. In particular, housing-policy strategies have been driven by the ways in which the community environments of very low-income families can limit life chances and increase the likelihood of a range of negative outcomes. Concerns ranging from exposure to environmental toxins to crime victimization have influenced housing policies. The limited economic opportunities and low-quality public services (such as education) of highly distressed neighborhoods are also seen reinforcing patterns of poverty (see, for example, Ellen and Turner, 1997; Jencks and Mayer, 1990). Informed by a range of studies demonstrating the importance of neighborhood environment for individual outcomes, policymakers have stressed either the geographic dispersal of assisted households out of high-poverty neighborhoods and into neighborhoods of opportunity or the redevelopment of assisted housing into mixed-income developments (see Briggs, Popkin, and Goering, 2010; Cisneros and Engdahl, 2009). Strategies for dealing with the housing needs of very low-income households have thus increasingly addressed the question of neighborhood and the access of such households to neighborhoods with greater opportunities and fewer constraints.The shifting of housing assistance to mixed-income developments or the dispersal of subsidized units assumes that all or by far most lower income families would benefit from and be willing to make the move if given the chance. Some, however, have challenged the assumption that very low-income families will invariably choose to move to opportunity neighborhoods as unrealistic, oversimplistic, or simply incorrect. Citing the importance of social support networks, place identification, and the advantages of centrally located neighborhoods, many have argued that mobility preferences among low-income residents are not so monolithic with respect to neighborhood (see Goetz, 2013a; Manzo, Kleit, and Couch, 2008).Both sides of this debate, however, share a fundamental assumption about the mobility of very low-income households that may be problematic. Each perspective assumes a degree of agency on the part of very low-income households, in the sense that housing outcomes are seen as the result of considered choices among a set of alternatives that are understood, at least implicitly, by the households in question. In this article, we examine the role of neighborhood environment in the mobility decisions of a group of very low-income families. …" @default.
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- W289557050 title "Mobility Decisions of Very Low-Income Households" @default.
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