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Hot Topic: Housing Crisis Affecting Children & Families
lumaxart 2007
Providing children with safe housing increases their chance for success. The rise in residential mortgage foreclosures is adversely affecting children and youth. Nationally, an estimated 2 million children will be directly impacted by the mortgage crisis – displaced, forced to change schools, separated from their friends and put under stress. The following resources focus on housing’s effect on children identity, health, and school success.
The Impact of the Mortgage Crisis on Children and Their Education
Discusses the current situation and the consequence for children. Published by First Focus, an advocacy organization.
Positive Impact of Affordable Housing on Education: A Research Summary
Positive Impact of Affordable Housing On Health, A Research Summary
These two resources are published by The Center for Housing Policy (CHP), an affiliate of the National Housing Conference, which works to broaden understanding of the nation’s housing challenges and to examine the impact of policies and programs developed to address these needs.
Back to Basics, a HUD Homebuyers Education Campaign
In June, The US Department of Housing and Urban Development proclaimed a month-long homebuyers’ awareness campaign to help families avoid foreclosure. HUD’s Web site offers potential buyers information on the parameters for purchasing a house and how to avoid foreclosure later on, including nine steps to buying a house.
Resilient Children in Distressed Neighborhoods: Evidence from the HOPE VI Panel Study
The Urban Institute’s Metropolitan Communities Center offers this brief on changes and challenges for public housing residents. It describes the results of a study of outcomes from HUD’s HOPE VI community improvement program, started in 1992.
Housing Vouchers Are Critical for Ending Family Homelessness
The National Alliance to End Homelessness and its Homelessness Research Institute help to move families from homelessness into affordable long-term housing and names housing vouchers as the solution to the problem.
