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moving to opportunity  

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  • The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Moving to Opportunity for Fair Housing (MTO) demonstration began in 1994 as a five-site, federally funded social experiment designed to test whether improved neighborhood opportunities could positively affect the lives of public housing families. MTO made use of housing choice or Section 8 rental vouchers to facilitate the residential mobility of families out of deeply poor inner-city assisted housing developments to low-poverty census tracts in Boston, Baltimore, New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Housing; Moving to Opportunity]

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