Experimental Evidence Shows That Housing Vouchers Provided Measurable Benefits, Including Parent Stress Reduction.

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    • Source:
      Publisher: Project Hope Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 8303128 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 2694-233X (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 02782715 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Health Aff (Millwood) Subsets: MEDLINE
    • Publication Information:
      Publication: : Bethesda, MD : Project Hope
      Original Publication: Millwood, Va. : Project Hope, c1981-
    • Subject Terms:
      Housing* ; Child Health*; Child ; Humans ; Costs and Cost Analysis ; Ohio ; Texas ; Public Housing
    • Abstract:
      This article presents early findings on the causal effects of a housing voucher on family stress, which plays an important role in children's healthy development. Using the Housing and Children's Healthy Development study, which is the only randomized controlled trial of housing vouchers (conducted in the Cleveland, Ohio, and Dallas, Texas, metropolitan areas), we found measurable health and related benefits accruing to families who received vouchers even though half of those who leased housing with vouchers only lived in that dwelling for roughly one year or less. Vouchers also substantially improved cost burdens, sufficiency of space, adequacy of heat, and daytime neighborhood safety. Our analysis shows that the affordability secured by the voucher (reduction of cost burden) played the most important role in reducing parent stress. One policy implication of the affordability findings is the need to keep families' housing cost burden affordable.
    • Publication Date:
      Date Created: 20240205 Date Completed: 20240207 Latest Revision: 20240904
    • Publication Date:
      20240905
    • Accession Number:
      10.1377/hlthaff.2023.01020
    • Accession Number:
      38315918