In collaboration with Opportunity Starts at Home, Children’s HealthWatch developed this two-part series examining housing as a foundation for child health and well-being. The first brief explores how housing instability and eviction affect children from pregnancy through young adulthood, deepen health inequities, and generate avoidable costs — while outlining evidence-based federal solutions to help families remain stably housed. The second examines how proposed cuts, eligibility restrictions, work reporting requirements, time limits, and weakened tenant protections could further destabilize families and harm children’s health. Together, the briefs make the case for sustained federal investment in safe, stable, and affordable housing.
A Foundation for Every Child: Housing Stability and Health EquityExplores how housing instability and eviction affect children’s health across the life course, deepen inequities, and create avoidable costs, while outlining evidence-based federal solutions to help families achieve stability nationwide.
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Stable Homes, Healthy Children: Cuts and Restrictions Threaten Child Health and ThrivingExamines how proposed federal cuts, eligibility restrictions, work reporting requirements, time limits, and weakened tenant protections could destabilize families, increase housing instability, and harm children’s health and well-being across communities.
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