The Power Of Purpose: How Jonathan Rose Is Creating 'Communities Of Opportunity'

Afdhel Aziz, Forbes, April 30, 2019. Full article available here. 

Assisted Housing May Lead to Health Benefits for Low-Income Renters, How Housing Matters, March 21, 2018, available here

Giving poor families more choices in where to live can greatly improve health, Sarah Varney, PBS, December 20, 2017, available here

Section 8 Vouchers Help The Poor - But Only If Housing Is Available, Laura Sullivan, NPR, May 10, 2017, available here

“Talk to Your Friends About Zoning”: A PSA Campaign for the NIMBY in Your Life, Henry Grabar, Slate, Febuary 13, 2017, available here

Jonathan Rothwell, Brooking's Institute, May 6, 2015, available here

Neighborhoods remain the crucible of social life, even in the internet age. Children do not stream lectures — they go to school. They play together in parks and homes, not over Skype. Crime and fear of crime are experienced locally, as is the police response to it. But wide income gaps and America’s legacy of racial segregation result in wide differences between neighborhoods on a range of measures. Two major new studies from Harvard economists Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren show that neighborhoods matter not only for daily life, but for the life chances of the children raised there.

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Balancing Investments in People and Place

Anna Maria Santiago, et al., March 2014, available here