Community Housing Organizations Matter in the Cultivation of Educational Opportunity: A New Perspective on Education Reform

• In Event: Poster Session 17
  In Poster Session: Division L Graduate Student Poster Session

Abstract

In the last decade the number of families struggling to afford housing has grown rapidly throughout the United States. Despite the widespread urgency of this issue, there is an absence of scholarship in educational research about how affordable housing policy and programs affect students’ educational opportunity. In this case study, I propose that Community Development Corporations (CDCs) are under-researched organizations that offer important insights into the relationship between housing and educational opportunity. Ultimately, this study aims to inform how school and community based actors can capitalize on the “education potentials” of CDCs.

Author

• Alexis K. Bourgeois, University of Wisconsin - Madison