Housing (In)stability and K-12 Schools: New Evidence on Linkages, Impacts on Student Outcomes, and Remedies

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Schools explain some variation in students’ outcomes, but external factors play a large role in determining the opportunities available to youth. Educational researchers have thus called for more attention to be paid to other areas that intersect with K-12, such as housing. This symposium presents four studies that focus specifically on housing instability, asking: How do policies that increase housing instability affect students’ educational outcomes and what explain these effects? How do youth impacted by instability experience homelessness and leverage social networks to receive needed resources? What are the programs that can help families and youth facing residential insecurity? Finally, how strongly linked is place of residence to school assignment across the U.S.?

Sub Unit

• Division L - Educational Policies and Politics / Division L - Section 7: Social Context and Structural Inequalities

Chair

• Mark Chin, Vanderbilt University

Papers

• Creating a Nuisance? Housing Nuisance Ordinances and their Impacts on Student Outcomes - Mark Chin, Vanderbilt University; Tasminda Dhaliwal, Michigan State University

• Social Network and Student Homelessness: Traversing Within and Between the Urban-Suburban Binary - Earl J. Edwards, Boston College

• Protections, Assistance, and Services: An Environmental Scan of the School-Housing Partnership Landscape - Huriya Jabbar, University of Southern California; Jennifer Jellison Holme, University of Texas at Austin; Ann Owens, University of Southern California; Daniel Dawer, University of Texas at Austin; Alejandro Madrigal, University of Texas at Austin; Tyra Timm, University of Texas at Austin

Discussant

• Kara S. Finnigan, University of Michigan