Brookings’s Future of the Middle Class Initiative hosted an event presenting new results on Moving to Opportunity–a 10-year fair housing experiment to help low income families find housing in low-poverty areas. Jens Ludwig, professor at the University of Chicago, Jeffrey Kling from the Congressional Budget Office, and Nathaniel Hendren of Opportunity Insights and Harvard University presented on MTO and CMTO findings. Their presentations were followed by two panels discussing the research in the field as well as the work on the ground by practitioners.

Join the Hopkins Economics of Alzheimer's Disease and Services Center Seminar Series where PIRL Associate Director Nicholas Papageorge will be presenting "Genetic Endowments, Alzheimer's Disease and Economic Outcomes."

Stefanie DeLuca will participate in a panel on housing and schools where she will discuss the Creating Moves to Opportunity experiment.

Stefanie DeLuca to discuss the future of the Housing Choice Voucher program.

A discussion of new research and findings on housing mobility programs and health outcomes in Baltimore City and beyond.

Stefanie DeLuca gave a talk on the CMTO study at Washington University in St. Louis, in the Department of Economics.

Stefanie DeLuca will talk about her CMTO Seattle work with Urban Institute staff. 

For the typical American, inequality is not about numbers and statistics. Inequality is experienced in the neighborhoods where we live, the schools we attend, how the criminal justice system treats us, and myriad other ways. Join us for a discussion with a panel of leading scholars to consider how the institutions of American life reflect and transmit inequality. 

Rethinking Urban Poverty for the 21st Century: Institutional and Organizational Perspectives

The American Dream is broken. The kind of social mobility that once inspired our country’s global reputation as the land of opportunity has become increasingly elusive in today’s climate of rising economic inequality. Now more than ever, where you start out in life strongly determines where you end up, and this reality is leaving millions of low-income families perpetually trapped in our nation’s poorest neighborhoods.