Improving and stabilizing the housing conditions of vulnerable families can lead to improved outcomes for mainstream systems interacting with them – schools, child welfare, health clinics and hospitals, workforce development, child and family services, and other human services systems.
 

Housing Instability & Health & Well-Being 

How Housing Affects Child Well-Being

Poor Quality Housing Is Tied to Children’s Emotional and Behavioral Problems

Relations Between Housing Characteristics and the Well-Being of Low-Income Children and Adolescents 

Housing Instability- A Continuum of Risk 

America’s Youngest Outcasts 

Tackling Persistent Poverty in Distressed Urban Neighborhoods

Homelessness as One Component of Housing Instability and Its Impact on the Development of Children in Poverty

Bonding Social Capital in Low-Income Neighborhoods

ECONOMIC SECURITY AND HOUSING STABILITY- Collection of Innovative Practices 

 

Housing Instability & Education  

The Impacts of Affordable Housing on Education

Early Childhood Residential Instability and School Readiness

Creating Opportunity for Children – How Housing Location Can Make a Difference

Poverty, Housing Insecurity and Student Transiency in Rural Areas

Affordable Housing Is Associated with Greater Spending on Child Enrichment and Stronger Cognitive Development 

Inclusionary Zoning Can Bring Poor Families Closer to Good Schools  

 

Housing Instability & Health & Mental Health

 Physical and Mental Health, Cognitive Development, and Health Care Use

The Effects of the Home Environment on Children’s Development

How Neighborhoods Affect Health, Well-being, and Young Peoples Futures

Housing Quality, Housing Instability, and Maternal Mental Health

Housing Instability and Food Insecurity as Barriers to Health Care Among Low-Income Americans

HOUSING & HEALTH: An Overview of the Literature

Housing Instability & Child Welfare

Child Welfare and Housing pdf

Families-at-the-Nexus-of-Housing-and-Child-Welfare

From Poverty to Child Welfare Involvement: The Critical Role of Housing in Family Stability

Housing Plus Services: Supporting Vulnerable Families in Permanent Housing    

The Intersection of Families, Housing, and Child Welfare Systems

Teen Pregnancy Among Young Women In Foster Care- A Primer

Pregnant and Parenting Unaccompanied Youth

Housing Instability, Inequality & Racial Disparity

The US has “Much Left To Do” on Racism: Segregation Worse Now Than In 70s

The Rise of Residential Segregation by Income

Policy Directions: Race, Poverty, and Housing

Providing Affordable Family_Housing_and Reducing Residential Segregation by Income – A Systematic Review

Neighborhoods & the Black-White Mobility Gap

  

Impacts of Incumbent Residential Displacement

Housing Instability: Toward a Better Understanding of Frequent Residential Mobility Among America’s Urban Poor

Neighborhoods & the Black-White Mobility Gap

Family Mobility and Neighborhood Change

Residential Mobility, Housing Problems,and Child Outcomes in the Women’s Employment Study 

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https://www.urban.org/partner-projects.