The article begins to talk about how the Department of Housing and Urban Development launched a program called, Moving to Opportunity in 1994. It then explains that the program's main goal is to help improve employment, education, and health in low income families living in poor neighborhoods with providing residential mobility. The individuals involved with this program was done at random some stayed in public housing, some got a section 8 housing voucher and another go vouchers the to use in an apartment in low-income neighborhood. My only issue with this is that it did help some individuals but the others ended up getting more adverse effects. Another issue they kept them in low-income neighborhoods, they are still being discriminated against. Yes, they moved from 40 percent or more poverty rates to 10 percent poverty rates, but they are still put into low-income neighborhoods, so they are still not getting the benefits of individuals of middle class or upper class. They are not allowing them to be mobile to another class. This particular article just starts the conversation of a big social problem of the gap between the rich and poor. Due to the current economic issues this has become a even larger gap. Also, the lack of mobility between classes and lack of access to opportunities based on location and class is a social problem that is long over due for not being fixed. Due to these lack of opportunities to education, health and employment the cycle continues as it is now and might become worse.
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/housing/2012/03/urban-poor-downside-residential-mobility/1386/
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