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The housing and neighborhood conditions of America's children: patterns and trends over four decades

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  • C. Scott Holupka
  • Sandra J. Newman

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This paper uses national and metropolitan area data from American Housing Surveys over four decades to examine the patterns and trends in the housing and neighborhood circumstances of children. Children across the income distribution have experienced dramatic improvements in the physical adequacy of their dwellings and in crowding but significant deterioration in housing affordability. Poor children are often in greatest jeopardy, with the rate of complaints about crime 25 percent higher in 2005 than in 1975, and the rate of school complaints twice as high in 2005 than 1975. Poor children also experience little payoff from residential mobility in terms of physical dwelling adequacy, crowding, affordability, or adequacy of schools, though moves are associated with fewer complaints about crime. However, it is the near poor -- those between 101--200 percent of poverty -- and not the poor who appear to be most affected by the tightness or looseness of the housing market.

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  • C. Scott Holupka & Sandra J. Newman, 2011. "The housing and neighborhood conditions of America's children: patterns and trends over four decades," Housing Policy Debate, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 21(2), pages 215-245, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:houspd:v:21:y:2011:i:2:p:215-245
    DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2011.567289
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    1. Helms, Veronica E. & Coleman-Jensen, Alisha & Gray, Regina & Brucker, Debra L., 2020. "Household Food Insecurity and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Federal Housing Assistance," Agricultural Economic Reports 307395, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    2. Sandra J. Newman, 2015. "Back to Basics: The Whether, When, and How of Housing Effects," Housing Policy Debate, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(4), pages 806-808, October.
    3. Zhang, Lixia & Topitzes, James, 2022. "The association between family physical environment and child maltreatment," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 139(C).
    4. Hembre, Erik & Collins, J. Michael & Wylde, Samuel, 2024. "A rising tide lifts all homes? Housing consumption trends for low-income households since the 1980s," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 233(C).
    5. Helms, Veronica E & Coleman-Jensen, Alisha & Gray, Regina & Brucker, Debra L, 2020. "Household Food Insecurity and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Federal Housing Assistance," Economic Research Report 327205, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    6. Kull, Melissa A. & Coley, Rebekah Levine, 2014. "Housing costs and child functioning: Processes through investments and financial strains," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 39(C), pages 25-38.
    7. Leonard M. Lopoo & Andrew S. London, 2016. "Household Crowding During Childhood and Long-Term Education Outcomes," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 53(3), pages 699-721, June.

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