This study, focusing on African-American MTO This study uses MTO baseline data and public data to This study uses participant interviews and census data This study uses existing MTO databases, interviews with 25 Los Angeles RESEARCHER TOPIC Jeanne Brooks - Gunn (Columbia University) Phillip Thompson (Columbia University) This study involves interviewing teenaged students and their parents who are MTO participants to describe the peer, family, school, neighborhood, and individual processes that might facilitate or restrict adaptation to the new setting. This study uses a survey of MTO and Section 8 families to identify the nature and extent of adjustment problems, and to pinpoint the differences in these problems based on the program in which the family is participating. Chicago TOPIC This study uses several data sources, including a telephone survey of MTO participants to examine the factors that affect families' decisions to participate in the MTO program, and the determinants of participants' choice in housing location. This study investigates differences in MTO participants' housing search strategies, and examines the factors that influence their choices of residential location, by interviewing counselors and conducting focus groups of MTO participants. Baltimore ENDNOTES 1. G. Cisneros, Regionalism: Henry The New Geography of Opportunity, Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 1995. 2. William J. Clinton, National Urban Policy Report, Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 1995. HUD actually obligated $68.5 million for MTO certificates and vouchers. 3. 4. Secretary Henry Cisneros approved the final selection of five MTO demonstration sites as recommended by recommended by the technical review panel on March 17, 1994. This report therefore marks the first two years of program implementation. 5. For a description of existing mobility programs and their impacts, see John Goering et al, Promoting Housing Choice in HUD's Rental Assistance Programs, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development: Washington, D.C., April, 1995. 6. Do Their Moves to James Rosenbaum. 1992. "Black Pioneers the Suburbs Increase Economic Opportunity for Mothers and Children?" Housing Policy Debate. Volume 2, Issue 4, 1179-1213. 7. Several of the PHAs that applied to participate in MTO were determined to be ineligible because of their poor management and performance records in meeting basic public housing and Section 8 rental assistance requirements. 8. Non-intrusive household tracking techniques to locate MTO families over the entire ten-year period of the demonstration are currently being developed. 9. Regression analysis reveals that the determinant value of six combined demographic variables listed in the MTO baseline survey (race, head of household sex, household size, head of household age, employment, and AFDC collection) is statistically insignificant at the .05 level (R-square=.01921). 10. Crime victimization results derived from survey data must be considered with a modicum of caution, due to the "telescoping" effect observed in some crime victimization studies (B. Penick, ed., Surveying Crime, (Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences, 1976, p.43). Telescoping refers to the phenomenon whereby a survey respondent acknowledges an actual crime to the interviewer but reports the date of its occurrence inaccurately. This phenomenon can inflate crime victimization figures somewhat. However, the questions posed by the MTO baseline survey and the RTI instrument are so similar that telescoping effects should be similar for both studies, or "a wash." Further, Penick, et. al., note that telescoping "does not necessarily affect estimates of victimization within a certain period" (p.45). 11. Research Triangle Institute defines the "largest" PHAs as those authorities managing 4,000-49,000 units of public housing. 12. R. Zelon, B. Rohe, S. Leaman, & S. Williams, Research Triangle Institute, Survey of Public Housing Residents: Crime and Crime Prevention in Public Housing, 1994. 13. Placement rates, or success rates, are defined as the percent of all families who are able to find a housing unit in which they can use their Section 8 subsidy. Unsuccessful families are those who, despite housing search assistance, are unable to find a suitable unit and therefore do not receive tenant-based rental assistance. 14. MTCS data on the characteristics of project residents is for December 1995. 15. Section 8 Rental Voucher and Rental Certificate Utilization of Housing and Urban Study: Final Report, U.S. Department |