The <italic>Gautreaux</italic> program was one of the first major residential mobility programs in the United States, providing low-income black families from public housing with opportunities to relocate to more affluent white neighborhoods in the Chicago suburbs and in other city neighborhoods. This paper...

This paper examines mobility in the <italic>Gautreaux</italic> Two Housing Mobility Program, which attempted to alleviate poverty concentration by offering vouchers to residents of highly distressed Chicago public housing developments. In contrast to the original <italic>Gautreaux</italic> program, placement moves in <italic>Gautreaux</italic>...