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Struggling to stay out of high-poverty neighborhoods: housing choice and locations in moving to opportunity's first decade

Xavier de Souza Briggs Office of Management and Budget, The White House, Washington, DC, 20503, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Jennifer Comey The Urban Institute, 2100 M Street, NW Washington, DC, 20037, USA
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Gretchen Weismann Department of Housing and Community Development, 100 Cambridge Street, Suite 300, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
Pages 383-427 | Published online: 09 Jun 2010

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