Rebekah Levine Coley|Tama Leventhal|Alicia Doyle Lynch|Melissa Kull
Relations between housing characteristics and the well-being of low-income children and adolescents.
Boston College|Tufts University|Boston College|Boston College
extant research highlighted importance multiple characteristics housing comprehensively assessed broad range housing characteristics relative contributions childrens wellbeing using representative longitudinal sample lowincome children adolescents lowincome urban neighborhoods n 2437 ages 221 years threecity study study assessed housing quality stability type ie ownership status subsidy status cost simultaneously delineate unique associations childrens development hierarchical linear models found poor housing quality consistently associated childrens adolescents development including worse emotional behavioral functioning lower cognitive skills associations operated part mothers psychological functioning residential instability showed mixed links functioning whereas housing cost type consistently predictive results suggest housing contexts associated functioning across developmental span early childhood late adolescence differences patterns child age