Quick Document Access Moving To Opportunity is a national demonstration program, with sites in Baltimore , Boston , Chicago , Los Angeles , and New York . It has been operated by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development since 1994. The MTO demonstration provides the first opportunity to measure definitively and to understand the impacts of a change in neighborhood on the social wellbeing of low-income public housing families.
Documents describing preliminary findings from MTO research are available below.
Synthesis of MTO Research on Self-Sufficiency, Safety and Health, and Behavior and Deliquency . An article in Poverty Research News from January-February 2001. Social Dimension of Moving to Opportunity . An article in Poverty Research News from January-February 2001. Unpublished manuscript, Georgetown University, January 2000.