Healthy Homes
Safe, decent affordable housing provides a healthier environment for children by reducing risks associated with lead poisoning, asthma, falls, and other home health hazards.
This analysis provides a broad overview of state housing policies with a particular focus on how these policies can help remediate child poverty, promote family and residential stability for children, and help families access communities that offer good schools, safe neighborhoods, and other amenities for raising children.
The policy provision of safe, decent and affordable housing helps offset several of the pathways through which poverty harms children.