public housing
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Changing neighborhoods can change your life
Feb 13, 2013
Helping poor families relocate to safer neighborhoods with better schools shown to improve mobility for children.
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Is there a link between housing policy and violence?
Feb 12, 2013
Experts say public housing policy is just one factor in the violence that troubles Chicago's poor neighborhoods.
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The economic costs of violence in Chicago
Feb 11, 2013
Over 500 people were killed in Chicago last year. And the soaring murder rate has real economic consequences for the city.
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An old song still resonates: 'Is it because I'm black?'
Jan 18, 2013
Singer Syl Johnson beat the odds he sang about, but barriers still restrain black economic mobility
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Economic mobility in Chicago's projects
Aug 17, 2012
Marketplace's Sylvester Monroe visits his childhood home -- a demolished public housing project in Chicago -- to see who made it out and who's moving up the economic ladder.
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