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Poverty deconcentration, housing mobility, and the construction of recent US housing policy
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Poverty deconcentration, housing mobility, and the construction of recent US housing policy
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a discourse analysis of the policy-making process
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Tursi
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Natasha Ona
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1971-
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Natasha Tursi
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Lake
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Robert W
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chair
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Defilippis
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James
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James Defilippis
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internal member
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Lahr
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Michael L
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Michael L Lahr
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Fischer
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Frank
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Frank Fischer
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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2011
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2011-10
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eng
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This study seeks to answer how and why poverty deconcentration and housing mobility have dominated recent housing policy discourse and produced the Moving to Opportunity demonstration program as HUD’s primary housing initiative in the 1990-2000 period. Through the examination of the policy discourse imbuing MTO I attempt to elucidate power relations and the role of elites in cultivating the housing mobility discourse. In addition, I demonstrate the hegemonic processes through which the dominant discourse proliferates. Employing a postpositivist approach to policy analysis, I examine the process of policy deliberation to expose the deliberative and discursive mechanisms through which MTO was engendered. Towards this end, the study explores the process, nature, and dynamics of policy deliberations at HUD to understand how federal policies are formed particularly with regard to embedded power dynamics and democratic processes. By illustrating the discursive practices that produced MTO, I uncover the politics, assumptions and frames through which HUD views poverty concentration, housing mobility, and voucher recipients. By depicting the evolutionary (genealogical) stages of MTO through a frame-critical discourse analysis, this study delimits the empirical findings produced through the demonstration. To that end I employ Fischer’s logic of policy evaluation and elucidate four interrelated discourses, which “extend from concrete empirical questions pertinent to a particular situation up to the abstract normative issues concerning a way of life” (1995:18). Accordingly, I produce an overall analysis of MTO, and offer suggestions on how the demonstration could have been structured or delineated differently, and what alternative assumptions or frames might have led to different analytical results.
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Poverty Concentration
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Planning and Public Policy
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xii, 265 p. : ill.
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Ph.D.
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Includes bibliographical references
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by Natasha Ona Tursi
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Housing policy--United States
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Poor--Housing--United States
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United States. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development
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doi:10.7282/T31V5D1B
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ETD doctoral
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Natasha
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2011-09-26 20:33:12
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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