Is Child Health at Risk While Families Wait for Housing Vouchers?

A TYPOLOGY FOR FAMILIES AT RISK FOR CHILD MALTREATMENT by

Housing Demand and Neighborhood Choice with Housing Vouchers

One goal of the U.S. housing voucher program, as an alternative to public housing subsidies, is to help participants gain access to decent neighborhoods. I find that in a typical implementation of the program, participants in the housing voucher program live in better neighborhoods than public housing residents, but in lower-quality neighborhoods compared to unsubsidized households eligible for...

BIBS program helps families at risk of child abuse.

Effects of Child Health on Housing

This study exploits an exogenous health shock—the birth of a child with a severe health condition that is considered by the medical community to be random—to investigate the effect of that shock on the family’s housing situation. We use population-based data from an urban birth cohort study that oversampled nonmarital births, resulting in a relatively disadvantaged sample that may be particular...

The Relationship between Housing and Health: Children at Risk

In November 2002, the National Center for Healthy Housing convened a 2-day workshop to review the state of knowledge in the field of healthy housing. The workshop, supported with funds from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control and National Center for Environmental Health, was unique in that it focused solely on the effect of hou...