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Civic Engagement in Camden, New Jersey
A Baseline Portrait
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2007. Robert Lake, Kathe Newman, Philip Ashton, Richard Nisa, and Bradley Wilson.
This report, from the Camden Regional Equity Demonstration Project, documents the challenges in fostering meaningful and effective civic engagement in an ambitious redevelopment initiative.
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Subsidized Housing and Employment
Building Evidence About What Works to Improve Self-Sufficiency
Working Paper
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2007. James A. Riccio.
This working paper argues for building a stronger base of evidence in the housing-employment policy arena through an expanded use of randomized controlled trials.
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Jobs-Plus: A Promising Strategy
Presented Before the Subcommittee on Federalism and the Census, House Committee on Government Reform
Congressional Testimony
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2006. James A. Riccio.
MDRC’s study of Jobs-Plus, an employment program for public housing residents, offered the first hard evidence that a work-focused intervention based in public housing can effectively boost residents’ earnings and promote their self-sufficiency. Congress may wish to consider introducing Jobs-Plus in additional housing developments across the country.
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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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Resident Participation in Seattle’s Jobs-Plus Program
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2004. Edward B. Liebow, Carolina Katz Reid, Gabrielle E. O'Malley, and Scott Marsh:
Environmental Health and Social Policy Center, Seattle WA and Susan Blank: Consultant, MDRC.
Seattle Jobs-Plus — part of an MDRC national research demonstration designed to promote employment among public housing residents — succeeded in engaging a majority of residents, many of whom were immigrants from diverse parts of the world, in work-related services or supports.
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Implementing Financial Work Incentives in Public Housing
Lessons from the Jobs-Plus Demonstration
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2004. Alissa Gardenhire-Crooks, with Susan Blank and James A. Riccio.
This report examines how public housing authorities in six cities implemented one of the most innovative features of the Jobs-Plus demonstration: using incentives plans to keep rents lower than they would have been under existing rules as a way to encourage and reward work among public housing residents.
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Mobilizing Resident Networks in Public Housing
Implementing the Community Support for Work Component of Jobs-Plus
Working Paper
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2004. Linda Yuriko Kato.
The “community support for work” component of Jobs-Plus relies on outreach workers from public housing developments to help extend Jobs-Plus’s reach in public housing communities.
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Participating in a Place-Based Employment Initiative
Lessons from the Jobs-Plus Demonstration in Public Housing
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2003. Linda Yuriko Kato.
From the Jobs-Plus initiative, this report describes efforts to build participation among public housing residents in a program that offers services and financial incentives designed to promote work.
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Final Report on the Neighborhood Jobs Initiative
Lessons and Implications for Future Community Employment Initiatives
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2003. Frieda Molina and Craig Howard.
Drawing upon the experiences of the lead community organizations during the initiative’s implementation phase, this third and final NJI report explores the feasibility and effectiveness of NJI’s novel approach to neighborhood revitalization.
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Jobs-Plus Site-by-Site
Key Features of Mature Employment Programs in Seven Public Housing Communities
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2003. Linda Yuriko Kato with Stan L. Bowie, Alissa Gardenhire, Linda Kaljee, Edward B. Liebow, Jennifer Miller, Gabrielle O'Malley, Elinor Robinson.
Aiming to significantly increase employment and economic self-sufficiency among public housing residents since its inception in 1997, the Jobs-Plus Community Revitalization Initiative for Public Housing Families created and operated on-site job centers at each of seven public housing developments in six cities across the nation.
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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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Children in Public Housing Developments
An Examination of the Children at the Beginning of the Jobs-Plus Demonstration
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2002. Pamela Morris, Stephanie Jones with Jared Smith.
Children who live in public housing are commonly thought to be at greater risk of experiencing academic and behavioral problems than other low-income children, but this paper is among the few to explore empirically the characteristics and circumstances of these children.
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The Employment Experiences of Public Housing Residents
Findings from the Jobs-Plus Baseline Survey
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2002. John M. Martinez.
Tapping a deep pool of survey data to learn about residents' connections to the labor market, this report dispels some widespread misconceptions. For example, it finds that even in places with high rates of joblessness, many public housing residents have work histories that are extensive and varied, albeit typically in unstable, low-wage jobs.
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Using Place-Based Random Assignment and Comparative Interrupted Time-Series Analysis to Evaluate the Jobs-Plus Employment Program for Public Housing Residents
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2002. Howard S. Bloom, James A. Riccio.
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The Special Challenges of Offering Employment Programs in Culturally Diverse Communities
The Jobs-Plus Experience in Public Housing Developments
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2002. Linda Yuriko Kato.
Through extensive ethnographic interviews with staff and residents of two Jobs-Plus housing developments in Seattle and St. Paul, this report explains how a range of social and personal issues characteristic of largely immigrant public housing residents can render conventional employment and support services ineffective.
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Structures of Opportunity
Developing the Neighborhood Jobs Initiative in Fort Worth, Texas
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2002. Tony Proscio.
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Making Work Pay for Public Housing Residents
Learning from the Jobs-Plus Demonstration
Policy Brief
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2002. James A. Riccio, Steven Bliss.
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Making Work Pay for Public Housing Residents
Financial-Incentive Designs at Six Jobs-Plus Demonstration Sites
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2002. Cynthia Miller, James A. Riccio.
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Promoting Employment in Public Housing Communities
Learning from the Jobs-Plus Demonstration
Policy Brief
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2001. James A. Riccio, Steven Bliss.
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Building New Partnerships for Employment
Collaboration Among Agencies and Public Housing Residents in the Jobs-Plus Demonstration
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2001. Linda Y. Kato, James A. Riccio with Jennifer Dodge.
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The Neighborhood Jobs Initiative
An Early Report on the Vision and Challenges of Bringing an Employment Focus to a Community-Building Initiative
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2001. Frieda Molina, Laura C. Nelson.
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Welfare, Housing, and Employment
Learning from the Jobs-Plus Demonstration
Policy Brief
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2001.
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Jobs-Plus Site-by-Site
An Early Look at Program Implementation
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2000. Edited by Susan Philipson Bloom with Susan Blank.
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Building a Convincing Test of a Public Housing Employment Program Using Non-Experimental Methods
Planning for the Jobs-Plus Demonstration
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1999. Howard Bloom.
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Mobilizing Public Housing Communities for Work
Origins and Early Accomplishments of the Jobs-Plus Demonstration
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1999. James A. Riccio.
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A Research Framework for Evaluating Jobs-Plus
A Saturation and Place-Based Employment Initiative for Public Housing Residents
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1998. James A. Riccio.
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Lessons from the Field on the Implementation of Section 3
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U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
1996. Maxine Bailey and Suzanne Lynn, with Fred Doolittle.
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Tenant Management
Findings from a Three-Year Experiment in Public Housing
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1981. Mary Queeley, Janet Quint, Suzanne Trazoff.
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Tenant Management
An Historical and Analytical Overview
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1979. William Diaz.
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