The Impact of Housing Assistance on the Mental Health of Children in the United States

Fenelon, Andrew; Slopen, Natalie; Boudreaux, Michel; Newman, Sandra J.

doi:10.1177/0022146518792286

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“…For example, adolescents may be more aware of local eviction filings and thus feel the stress of housing insecurity themselves, potentially prompting more visible behavioral or mental health issues, which can draw allegations of neglect. Indeed, housing assistance has a protective effect on child mental health, but only for children ages 6 and older (Fenelon et al, 2018). Evictions could also lead older children to miss school, which may constitute educational neglect.…”

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“…In support of this theory, Warren and Font (2015) find that in addition to its direct effects on neglect risk, housing insecurity indirectly influences risks of abuse and neglect through its effects on maternal stress. Housing insecurity may also affect the mental health of children, particularly those in middle childhood and adolescence (Fenelon, Slopen, Boudreaux, & Newman, 2018), which can create additional challenges for parents.…”

Section: Psychological Well-being and Substance Usementioning

confidence: 99%

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Evictions and Neighborhood Child Maltreatment Reports

Bullinger

Fong

2020

Housing Policy Debate

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Each year, nearly 2.5 million evictions are filed in the United States. Recent research links evictions to a host of negative outcomes, but effects on child well-being are less studied, even as evictions are disproportionately experienced by families with children. In this article, we investigate the relationship between evictions and reports of child abuse and neglect, a key indicator of child well-being. Drawing on 5 years of block-grouplevel administrative data in Connecticut, we find that as eviction notices increase within a neighborhood, reports of maltreatment also increase, even net of zip-code-level factors and time-invariant block group characteristics. The relationship is driven by reports of neglect and is strongest among adolescents (children ages 10-17). These results suggest that mitigating housing insecurity has the potential to reduce child abuse and neglect reports.

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Section: Psychological Well-being and Substance Usementioning

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Evictions and Neighborhood Child Maltreatment Reports

Bullinger

Fong

2020

Housing Policy Debate

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“…As such, we refer to the group yet to enter housing as the quasi-wait-list group. Previous studies [25][26][27] have used this method to examine the association of rental assistance with adult health, adult health care access, and child mental health.…”

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Association of Childhood Asthma With Federal Rental Assistance

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Millions of low-income children in the United States reside in substandard or unaffordable housing. Relieving these burdens may be associated with changes in asthma outcomes.OBJECTIVES To examine whether participation in the US Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) rental assistance programs is associated with childhood asthma outcomes and to examine whether associations varied by program type (public housing, multifamily housing, or housing choice vouchers).

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“…For children, these psychological attributes are important for the development of selfregulation, self-esteem, psychological well-being, and mental health. Although no interventions were found that address these factors specifically, there is evidence from more generic housing interventions that improved housing is associated with mental health and to which the psychological mechanisms of meaning and control are likely partly attributable (1,29,70).…”

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Housing and Healthy Child Development: Known and Potential Impacts of Interventions

Dunn

2020

Annu. Rev. Public Health

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Housing is often described as an important determinant of health, but less commonly of child health. Despite acknowledgment of the importance of housing to health, however, there are relatively few studies of the effects of housing interventions on health, and again even fewer on child health. This article argues that a broad focus on healthy child development—as opposed to just physical health—coupled with a conceptual framework outlining specific attributes of housing with the potential to influence child health, should be adopted to guide a comprehensive approach to public health policy for healthy child development. Most housing interventions address direct pathways linking in-home hazard exposures to child health outcomes, with promising but mixed results. But few housing interventions address the broader aspects of healthy child development. This review addresses potential housing interventions that could impact the broader determinants of healthy child development and accompanying methodological challenges.

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The Impact of Housing Assistance on the Mental Health of Children in the United States

Cited by 56 publications

References 67 publications

Evictions and Neighborhood Child Maltreatment Reports

Evictions and Neighborhood Child Maltreatment Reports

Association of Childhood Asthma With Federal Rental Assistance

Housing and Healthy Child Development: Known and Potential Impacts of Interventions

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