Location A Bigger Influence Than Race For Children In Public Housing
A new study finds that the neighborhood where children in public housing live impacts their life outcomes in more significant ways than race does.
Do black and white children who live in assisted or subsidized housing experience different life outcomes?
That question was at the center of a new study by Sandra Newman and C. Scott Holupka, two researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. They combed through federal data on households in public housing or those that received housing vouchers from the 1970s through the first decade of the 2000s.
What the pair found was neither straightforward nor surprising. When it came to life
