Project Title: Housing Mobility and the Intergenerational Transmission of Neighborhood Poverty

Project Description: This project will be examining how parents’ characteristics and past experiences with neighborhood disadvantage shape the neighborhood poverty experienced by their children in the context of the Moving to Opportunity experiment. Using both quantitative and qualitative data over a 15-year period, we will explore the mechanisms through which housing mobility does or does not lead to the intergenerational transmission of neighborhood poverty between parents and children.

Biography: Susan Clampet-Lundquist is an associate professor of sociology at Saint Joseph’s University. Her research focuses on urban neighborhoods, families, adolescent risk behavior, and social policy. Much of her social policy work has focused on the effects of housing mobility initiatives for low-income families, and she has interviewed over 200 adults and teenagers who were relocated from public housing in Philadelphia and Baltimore, through HOPE VI and Moving to Opportunity.