Why Housing Stability Matters for Young Children
Join our upcoming webinar to explore how housing stability and quality shape young children’s health and development, and how policies and programs can expand access to safe, affordable, and climate-resilient homes.
In recent years, it has become more difficult for families to find and keep a stable, healthy home, as home prices and rents have grown at a higher rate than household incomes. Climate change is also exacerbating these challenges through damage and displacement caused by extreme weather events.
Drawing on insights from the new working paper, Stable Housing Supports Early Childhood Development and Lifelong Health, from the Early Childhood Scientific Council on Equity and the Environment, this live conversation will examine how housing conditions affect children’s developmental environments, both directly and indirectly, and highlight opportunities to better support children and families.
The conversation will be moderated by Lindsey Burghardt, MD, MPH, FAAP, Chief Science Officer at the Center on the Developing Child, and feature Alison Lee, MD, MS, Vice Chair for Research and Faculty Affairs in the Department of Global Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Natalie Slopen, ScD, Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.