Abstract
Drawing on longitudinal survey and interview data, this brief seeks to understand how families negotiate the diverse structure of neighborhood opportunity and explores their experiences of living in different types of neighborhoods. National-level longitudinal quantitative data demonstrate the diversity of neighborhood opportunity and the differences by race, illustrating the consequences of where a family lives and highlighting why families place so much emphasis on gaining access to the “right” neighborhood. The Leveraging Mobility Study interview data reveal how families negotiate diverse neighborhood opportunity structures and how they use their available resources—financial and social—to maximize the benefits they can derive from the neighborhood amenities available to them. The brief concludes by exploring policy solutions.