Urban Institute Grant



Organization - Urban Institute
Grant Amount - $350,000
Foundation - Rockefeller Foundation
Grant Purpose - in support of an analysis of the effects on participating families of the federal Moving to Opportunity program, which moved public housing residents out of distressed neighborhoods by using housing vouchers


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Urban Institute - $200,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation - in continued support of an analysis of the effects on participating families of the federal Moving to Opportunity program, which moved public housing residents out of distressed neighborhoods by using housing vouchers

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