In December, a hung jury resulted in a mistrial in the Freddie Gray case. The death of the 25-year-old Baltimore black manwhile in police custody, and the protests that followed, brought to light the long history of strained police-community relations in the city’s highly segregated, very poor neighborhoods.
Poor black kids growing up in Baltimore’s high-poverty neighborhoods are least likely to escape their circumstances compared to other U.S. cities, according to research by Harvard economist Raj Chetty. But low-income families continue to live in these areas because that’s where they find affordable housing.
In a recent blog post, Eli Knaap, who runs the spatial research lab at University of Maryland’s National Center for Smart Growth, Research, and Education, spotlights the mismatch between affordable housing and opportunity in Baltimore and its surrounding areas, and highlights lessons from the city’s relatively impactful housing-mobility program.
[For more of this story, written by Tanvi Misra, go to http://www.citylab.com/housing...-opportunity/421722/]
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