Public housing

Housing authorities across the country are searching for ways to transition people out of public housing.

Sequestration has left housing authorities with a stark choice: Raise rents, or eliminate some Section 8 vouchers altogether.

Helping poor families relocate to safer neighborhoods with better schools shown to improve mobility for children.

Experts say public housing policy is just one factor in the violence that troubles Chicago's poor neighborhoods.

Over 500 people were killed in Chicago last year. And the soaring murder rate has real economic consequences for the city.

Singer Syl Johnson beat the odds he sang about, but barriers still restrain black economic mobility

Marketplace's Sylvester Monroe visits his childhood home -- a demolished public housing project in Chicago -- to see who made it out and who's moving up the economic ladder.