{"id":9534,"date":"2018-10-25T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T08:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/?p=9534"},"modified":"2018-10-23T00:39:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T00:39:35","slug":"public-housing-provides-mental-health-benefits-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/2018\/10\/25\/public-housing-provides-mental-health-benefits-for-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Housing Provides Children Mental Health Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n Andrew Fenelon, Natalie Slopen, Michael Boudreaux, and Sandra Newman, <\/span>“The Impact of Housing Assistance on the Mental Health of Children in the United States,” Journal of Health and Social Behavior<\/em>,<\/a><\/span> 2018<\/span><\/div>\n
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Photo of a Chicago public housing building. Photo by TheeErin, Flickr CC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Earlier this year, the Trump administration proposed <\/span>legislation<\/span><\/a> that would <\/span>significantly raise rents<\/span><\/a> for people who rely on subsidized housing from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. In addition to concerns about an increase in homelessness, new research by <\/span>Andrew Fenelon<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Natalie Slopen<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Michael Boudreaux<\/span><\/a>, and <\/span>Sandra Newman<\/span><\/a> shows that this policy may also have a detrimental effect on children\u2019s mental health. <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/div>Fenelon and colleagues used housing assistance records from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to compare 1,967 children currently receiving housing assistance — either living in public housing, multifamily housing, or using housing vouchers — to those set to receive housing assistance in the next two years. This setup allowed researchers to compare children receiving housing assistance with others in similar socioeconomic situations. Researchers then linked this data to measures of children\u2019s mental health, specifically whether children likely had any socioemotional problems over the past six months.\u00a0The study found that children currently living in public housing had better mental health outcomes than those on the waiting list. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The study found that children currently receiving housing assistance had better mental health outcomes than those on the waiting list. However, this was only the case for children living in <\/span>public housing<\/span><\/i>, not those living in multifamily housing or using housing vouchers. While the researchers did not specifically study why this is the case, they suggest public housing may provide social stability for children by giving families greater access to social ties and networks. In other words, both stability and community may be necessary to support children\u2019s mental health. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andrew Fenelon, Natalie Slopen, Michael Boudreaux, and Sandra Newman, “The Impact of Housing Assistance on the Mental Health of Children in the United States,” Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2018 Earlier this year, the Trump administration proposed legislation that would significantly raise rents for people who rely on subsidized housing from the Department of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2020,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,13,85],"tags":[35,18824,37334,1142,37332,321,109597,30840,565,371,37336,42264,727,295,19021],"class_list":["post-9534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-inequality","category-politics","tag-children","tag-economic-inequality","tag-health","tag-housing","tag-inequality","tag-law","tag-low-income-housing","tag-low-income","tag-mental-health","tag-policy","tag-politics","tag-public-housing","tag-social-class","tag-social-networks","tag-socioeconomic-status"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9534"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9538,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9534\/revisions\/9538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}