[WATCH]: Update on Housing Marketing Conditions and Other Research 6/7/2012

This video presents both an update on Changes in the State of the Nation's Housing Markets: 1st Quarter 2012 and a panel discussion titled Moving To Opportunity: Where a Person Lives Matters — A Policy Discussion featuring Lawrence Katz, Michael Stegman, and Susan Clampet-Lundquist. The Moving To Opportunity (MTO) Demonstration, begun in the 1990s and carried through 2012, provided families living in some of HUD's most distressed and highest poverty public housing an opportunity to move to low-poverty neighborhoods with a Housing Voucher. By randomly selecting the families that received a voucher, an interdisciplinary research team has been able to scientifically measure how much it matters to live in a different neighborhood by

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