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When “opportunity” moves to you
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When “opportunity” moves to you
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how living in a gentrified community affects the education and environment of youth in public housing
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Makris
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Molly Vollman
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1981-
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Molly Makris
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ALAN R
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Jeffrey R
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internal member
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White
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Carolyne J
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Carolyne J White
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Franck
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Karen A
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Karen A Franck
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - Newark
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theses
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2013
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2013-05
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eng
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The Moving to Opportunity for Fair Housing program gave families with children in urban public housing projects the chance to move from high-poverty neighborhoods to low-poverty neighborhoods in the hope that the move would improve their quality of life, health, and education. In Hoboken, New Jersey, public housing residents did not have to move to opportunity; instead, opportunity moved to them. This dissertation tells of young people living in public housing in a gentrified community where they are part of a racial and socioeconomic minority. Through qualitative analysis, including ethnography, youth participatory research, interviews, a focus group, and analysis of archival sources, the researcher investigated educational and environmental experiences of these young people. Using these methods and applying theories of neoliberalism, social and cultural capital, and political economy of place, the study examines the following: demographic, environmental, and educational characteristics of Hoboken; demographics of the Hoboken district-run public schools and whether or not they reflect those of the community; who attends which district-run public schools, and why; who applies to charter schools, who does not, and why; how school choice has influenced the education of youth in public housing; what environmental advantages and disadvantages are offered to youth who live in public housing in gentrified Hoboken; how youth in public housing relate to their gentrified community; and the implications of these findings for housing policy and education policy. The findings show that, while these young people experience environmental advantages related to living in a gentrified community, they still predominantly attend segregated schools. In an era when public housing is being demolished to be replaced by mixed-income development and school choice policies are proliferating, these findings have implications for both education and public housing policy. No previous study has analyzed how gentrification may influence youth in low-income public housing, who can remain in their community to reap possible advantages. This is also the only study of the education of youth in public housing in a gentrified community.
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Urban Systems
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xix, 309 p. : ill.
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Ph.D.
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by Molly Vollman Makris
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Moving to Opportunity (Program)
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Gentrification--New Jersey--Hoboken
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Public housing--New Jersey--Hoboken
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Youth--Education--New Jersey--Hoboken
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Neoliberalism--New Jersey--Hoboken
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Graduate School - Newark Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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ETD doctoral
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The author owns the copyright to this work.
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Makris
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Molly
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2013-04-25 12:57:37
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Molly Makris
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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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2013-05-31
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2013-11-30
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Access to this PDF has been restricted at the author's request. It will be publicly available after November 30th, 2013.
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