In the mid-1990s, thousands of families living in public housing, including nearly 700 adults from some of Boston’s poorest neighborhoods, took part in a federal housing voucher program designed to test whether moving families to a less impoverished place would improve their lives. Now, a new analysis by a team of top social scientists suggests that while the million program didn’t lift people out of poverty, it had a profound and measurable effect on their happiness.
Massive housing experiment finds those who moved to less-impoverished neighborhoods were happier – The Boston Globe
October 8, 2012 By
While the overall study finding seems obvious, the details are more interesting.
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