Housing Matters: Community-Based Housing Programs and Educational Opportunity

• In Event: Roundtable Session 21
  In Roundtable Session: Perspectives on Housing and Education

Abstract

Quality affordable housing can decrease residential mobility that can lead to homelessness; increase access to quality schools and educational resources (such as on-site youth programming and workforce development); improve neighborhoods; and mitigate against housing related health issues such as lead poisoning and asthma that impact educational outcomes. Considering this – that housing effects a child’s possibilities for thriving – this study examines how and to what extent community housing programs cultivate educational opportunity in low-income contexts.

Author

• Alexis K. Bourgeois, University of Wisconsin - Madison