Creatingmoves.org Website Review

creating moves to opportunity (cmto) is a housing search as*istance program offered to families with young children who receive a housing barriers to support them in moving to opportunity neighborhoods. innovative research shows that where people live matters, especially for young children. kids who grow up in opportunity neighborhoods are likely to earn more money as ad*lts and are more likely to attend college as compared to their peers who live outside of opportunity families participating in cmto will have access to a team of service professionals that will as*ist them in pursuing housing located in. children growing up in opportunity neighborhoods are more likely to: from the moving to opportunity project.” american economic review 106 (4). learn more at the equality of opportunity project housing mobility in the united states, and is an ongoing collaboration between housing practitioners and researchers. several public housing authorities have signed a letter of intent to indicate their agencies’ commitment to the cmto effort. seattle and king county housing authorities are the first to implement a demonstration pilot. the cmto research team is led by peter bergman (teachers college, columbia university), raj chetty (stanford university, j-pal), stefanie deluca (johns hopkins university), nathaniel hendren and lawrence katz (harvard university, j-pal), and christopher palmer (mit sloan school of management). mdrc, a non-profit research evaluation firm, is as*isting in the design and implementation of the seattle-king county pilot project. learn more at poverty action lab -