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Nandita Verma
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Toward Reduced Poverty Across Generations
Early Findings from New York City’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program
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2010. James Riccio, Nadine Dechausay, David Greenberg, Cynthia Miller, Zawadi Rucks, and Nandita Verma.
Targeted toward low-income families in six high-poverty New York City communities, Opportunity NYC-Family Rewards offers cash payments tied to efforts and achievements in children’s education, family preventive health care practices, and parents’ employment. In its first two years, the program substantially reduced poverty and material hardship and had positive results in improving some education, health-related, and work-related outcomes.
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Creating a Platform for Sustained Neighborhood Improvement
Interim Findings from Chicago’s New Communities Program
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2010. David Greenberg, Nandita Verma, Keri-Nicole Dillman, and Robert Chaskin, with James A. Riccio
A 10-year, $47 million MacArthur Foundation initiative, the New Communities Program was developed and is managed by the Local Initiatives Support Corporation of Chicago. This interim report focuses on the roll out of this comprehensive neighborhood improvement initiative and its early implementation years, examining community conditions, how local groups worked together, and the more than 700 projects supported through 2008.
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The Double Bind of Redevelopment
Camden During Receivership
Working Paper
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2009. David Greenberg, Nandita Verma, and David C. Seith.
This working paper gives a broad overview of redevelopment efforts under the first term of state receivership in Camden, New Jersey. It concludes that attempts to build public capacity to revitalize cities may need to be complemented by efforts to build civic capacity, or the ability to solve problems in coordination with major partners.
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Raising Hope with Jobs-Plus
Promoting Work in Seattle Public Housing During a HOPE VI Redevelopment
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2005. Nandita Verma, James A. Riccio, and Howard S. Bloom, with Johanna Walter.
Early success for this ambitious employment program for public housing residents in Seattle was disrupted by a federal HOPE VI grant to tear down and revitalize the housing development.
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Promoting Work in Public Housing
The Effectiveness of Jobs-Plus
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2005. Howard S. Bloom, James A. Riccio, Nandita Verma with Johanna Walter.
Jobs-Plus, an ambitious employment program inside some of the nation’s poorest inner-city public housing developments, markedly increased the earnings of residents in the sites where it was implemented well.
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Welfare Reform in Philadelphia
Implementation, Effects, and Experiences of Poor Families and Neighborhoods
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2003. Charles Michalopoulos, Kathryn Edin, Barbara Fink, Mirella Landriscina, Denise F. Polit, Judy C. Polyne, Lashawn Richburg-Hayes, David Seith, Nandita Verma.
Based on a comprehensive body of evidence, this report from the Project on Devolution and Urban Change examines how changes in Pennsylvania’s welfare reform policies combined with a strong regional economy in the late 1990s to create substantial change in the welfare system in Philadelphia.
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Housing Assistance and the Effects of Welfare Reform
Evidence from Connecticut and Minnesota
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U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. 2003. Nandita Verma, James A. Riccio, with Gilda L. Azurdia.
Using data from two random assignment welfare reform experiments, this report contributes insights to efforts to foster economic self-sufficiency in both the assisted housing and the welfare policy arenas.
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Exploring the Feasibility and Quality of Matched Neighborhood Research Designs
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2003. David C. Seith, Nandita Verma, Howard S. Bloom, George C. Galster.
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Staying or Leaving
Lessons from Jobs-Plus About the Mobility of Public Housing Residents and Implications for Place-Based Initiatives
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2003. Nandita Verma.
This paper begins to fill a void in the understanding of residential mobility in low-income communities by examining intended and actual out-migration patterns of a cohort of residents of five public housing developments.
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Monitoring Outcomes for Los Angeles County’s Pre- and Post-CalWORKs Leavers
How Are They Faring?
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
2003. Nandita Verma, Richard Hendra.
Responding to the growing need to understand whether people who have left the welfare rolls since the passage of the 1996 welfare reform law are able to find and keep jobs and earn enough to lift their families out of poverty, this study compares two groups of single-parent welfare recipients — one that left the welfare rolls in 1996, and a similar group who exited welfare in 1998 —investigating their background characteristics, their employment and earnings experiences, and their material well-being.
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Comparing Outcomes for Los Angeles County’s HUD-Assisted and Unassisted CalWORKs Leavers
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U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
2003. Nandita Verma, Richard Hendra.
This report studies the post-welfare experiences of three groups — two that received federal housing assistance when they left the welfare rolls and an unassisted group that did not — to see how they differ with respect to their labor market outcomes, material well-being, and propensity to return to the welfare rolls or rely on other forms of public assistance.
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Welfare Reform in Cleveland
Implementation, Effects, and Experiences of Poor Families and Neighborhoods
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2002. Thomas Brock, Claudia Coulton, Andrew London, Denise Polit, Lashawn Richburg-Hayes, Ellen Scott, Nandita Verma with Isaac Kwakye, Vanessa Martin, Judy C. Polyne, David Seith.
This report from the Project on Devolution and Urban Change examines how welfare reform has played out in Ohio's Cuyahoga County, which encompasses Cleveland, based on a comprehensive body of evidence that includes administrative records, surveys, and ethnographic interviews.
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Monitoring Outcomes for Cuyahoga County’s Welfare Leavers
How Are They Faring?
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2001. Nandita Verma, Claudia Coulton with Richard Hendra, Engel Polousky.
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The Family Transition Program
Final Report on Florida's Initial Time-Limited Welfare Program
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2000. Dan Bloom, James J. Kemple, Pamela Morris, Susan Scrivener, Nandita Verma,
Richard Hendra with Diana Adams-Ciardullo, David Seith, Johanna Walter.
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Assessing the Impact of Welfare Reform on Urban Communities
The Urban Change Project and Methodological Considerations
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2000. Charles Michalopoulos, Johannes M. Bos, Robert Lalonde, Nandita Verma.
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The Family Transition Program
Implementation and Three-Year Impacts of Florida's Initial Time-Limited Welfare Program
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1999. Dan Bloom, Mary Farrell, James J. Kemple, Nandita Verma.
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The Family Transition Program
Implementation and Interim Impacts of Florida's Initial Time-Limited Welfare Program
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1998. Dan Bloom, Mary Farrell, James J. Kemple, Nandita Verma.
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