Regional Opportunity Mapping

& Housing Policy Is School Policy

Moving to Higher Opportunity:

Exploring Options & Opportunities

For Housing Mobility

Montgomery County Community College

January 9, 2014

·  competitively rates Philadelphia and

its 237 suburban cities, boroughs,

and townships by key characteristics

·  divides 237 towns into five groups of

near-equal total population (each

quintile = 492,000 residents)

If we measure and weigh

Good jobs 35%

Good schools 35%

Good tax base 10%

Good neighborhoods 20%

Our region’s 238 municipalities are divided into:

Institute on race and poverty PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA REGION:

Research, ECIMallion and AdvOCICy Southeastern Pennsylvania First Suburbs

Municipal Opportunity Index

Maximum High Opportunity Medium Low Opportunity Minimum

Opportunity Opportunity Opportunity

Free And Reduced-price Meals (FARM)

percentages by MOI category

—Maximum opportunity towns 6%

— High opportunity towns 7%

— Medium opportunity towns 12%

— Low opportunity towns 20%

—Minimum opportunity towns 37%

—Central City 77%

Economic segregation drives poor

school performance: 100+ studies

influences on test scores

in 199 North Jersey school districts

“Children’s futures are

determined not by their

talents or actions but on the

zip code in which they are

raised.”

-- Shaun Donovan, HUD Secretary

HOUSING POLICY
IS
SCHOOL POLICY

Figure 6_ Effect of Red ZonekGreen Zone Dezignation on the Math Perfornriance of Children In Public Housing

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3 4 5 6

Number of years the child is enrcilled in the district

Figure. 7.. Effect of Red ZoneirGreen Zono Del I griation on thia Reading PerFornnance of Chlldron In Public Housing

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Child attended a green zone elementary school in previous year

Child attended a red Zone elementary school in previous year

Green Zone

Red zone

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N um her of rears. time ch i Id is enrol led in the -d istrict

SCHOOL POLICY
IS
HOUSING POLICY

Outer suburbs’ exclusionary practices

combined with federal housing policies make

First Suburbs’ homes and rentals the only

choice for low/modest income families

“moving up & out.”

Maximum High Opportunity Medium Low Opportunity Minimum

Opportunity Opportunity Opportunity

Institute on race and poverty PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA REGION:

Research, ECI MAWR and AdvocKy Southeastern Pennsylvania First Suburbs

Municipal Opportunity Index

BOPA-SEPAFSP Goal

·  To work collaboratively with HUD on a project that will be

developed to address poverty concentration on a regional basis.

·  The project will emphasize the challenges of first suburbs

communities and be designed to gain bi-partisan support.

·  The program is intended to serve as a national model, and to

maximize its chances of success, it will take full advantage of the

groundwork laid in Southeastern PA to cultivate support from

housing authorities, local elected leaders, and bi-partisan

Congressional support.

·  The goal is have this project ready to be rolled out before the end

of the year (i.e. 2013).