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Stable Homes Make Healthy Families

Policy Brief

Jul 10, 2018

Children's Health Watch

Children’s HealthWatch's brief "asks two straightforward questions: If health starts at home, what are the healthcare and educational costs of unstable housing? Which policy solutions could create stable homes for healthier families?"

No Longer Homeless, but Still Struggling in School

News Article

Dec 11, 2017

Elizabeth A. Harris for The New York Times

How to Change the Trajectory of Low-Income Children? Help the Parents.

News Article

Mar 14, 2018

Ryan McKinnon for the Herald-Tribune

Education leaders reconvened on Tuesday to continue discussing how to help kids by helping their parents. The approach, known as the “Two-Gen” method is based on data showing a child’s trajectory is largely determined by their parents’ stability.

What we get wrong about the poverty gap in education

News Article

Jul 2, 2018

Mical Raz for The Washington Post

Poor children don't struggle in school because of their parents. They struggle because of poverty.

2018 CLPHA Housing Is Summit - Video Recordings

The Council of Large Public Housing Authorities (CLPHA) hosted The Housing Is Summit in Washington, D.C., on May 3-4, 2018 with 200 partners across the housing, education, and healthcare sectors. The Summit highlighted the ways that we can transform systems to better serve low-income people with two days of plenary speakers/panels, breakout sessions, and caucus discussions geared toward intersectional thinking and ways to take action.

Video

May 23, 2018

Council of Large Public Housing Authorities

The Council of Large Public Housing Authorities (CLPHA) hosted The Housing Is Summit in Washington, D.C., on May 3-4, 2018 with 300 partners across the housing, education, and healthcare sectors.