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- W749202564 abstract "The orderly way in which we present research certainly belies the roundabout way in which insights are obtained. Some years back, in the middle of my study on Chicago public housing transformation, an elderly tenant withdrew from my study. She said that my interview was making her depressed. She decided to stop the interview just as I had completed about 30 of the 60 questions in my hand. She shook her head and said-I've had enough. You keep asking me about what I want, what my choice is, what's going to happen. I don't see how any of this will be helpful.I explained (for the second time) what was written on my informed consent form-the form that I would read to ensure that respondents understood the purpose of my visit. I said slowly that we were interested in the decisions that poor families made as they entered the private market after years in public housing. If they had a choice, I said, would they choose to live in better off neighborhoods? It seemed like a reasonable question, until I heard her answer.It's not about what we choose to do. Any fool can make choices, but you want to know the difference between you and me? When you make a bad decision, it won't matter. You'll be fine. See, when poor folk make choices, it can go terribly wrong. Terribly wrong. You want to help us? Make it so it doesn't matter if we make a bad choice.In that instant, I understood how much my own scholarly approach was based on untested and unexamined assumptions about the social world: choice mattered to me because most of my choices were not life or death. If my basic choices carried great weight, I would feel burdened and anxious. Residential location is a perfect example: I am fortunate to be able to live in a variety of middle-class neighborhoods, with varying amenities. I have some choice. Then again, I am not considering gang turf boundaries, lack of hospitals and grocery stores, police neglect, or anything else that really affects my material welfare. Every neighborhood I choose comes with these amenities. In other words, not much choice exists at all.For poor residents, choices are grave matters and the process can be tiresome after a point. Moving year after year, worrying about gun violence or the availability of decent public transportation, and getting children into a new school are all deeply anxiety-provoking, energy-consuming activities.Our approach to housing policy should take into account this structural feature of choice. The articles by Victoria Basolo, by Deirdre Oakley, Erin Ruel, and Lesley Reid, and by Kimberly Skobba and Edward G. Goetz remind us just how important choices are for low-income families. These articles challenge us to consider the forces that propel families into stability or lurch them over the cliff further into impoverishment. They also point to novel ways to better equip families to organize their lives in efficacious ways.In the articles, I found several lines of argument-all rooted in careful empirical analysis-that are worth pursuing as we reflect on the future of housing policy for low-income households seeking to live in more economically and socially mixed areas.First, social networks are critical for the poor urban residents, but the networks also provide contradictory benefits. They can facilitate comfort and security, but they also anchor individuals and their families in ties that are difficult to leverage for material benefits-such as information about jobs, schools, and safe neighborhoods.Oakley, Ruel, and Reid write, being older and from housing for seniors, having a disability, experiencing financial strain, and living a longer time in public housing decreased the probability of experiencing an easy relocation Their findings suggest that public housing residence has a temporal quality in which aspects of one's lifestyle become difficult to overcome. The longer one stays in a housing development, the more likely that one's personal connections affect the relocation and choice process. …" @default.
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