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Housing costs are rising faster in the very cities where poor kids were likeliest to succeed, data from Harvard and Zillow suggest.
Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
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It's an article of faith among affordable-housing advocates that low-income residents are better served when they live in neighborhoods that are economically diverse, and that new housing policy should seek to integrate the rich and the poor.

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