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Housing

Housing Is a Foundation for Child Health: Evidence, Policy, and What’s at Stake

September 9, 2026

Co-Enrollment in Safety-Net Programs Among Families with Young Children: A Multistate Analysis of Enrollment Gaps, Design and Implementation

August 12, 2026

From Screening to Action: Insights into HRSN Screening Infrastructure in a Fragmented Social Safety Net

June 24, 2026

Letter to the Massachusetts Budget Conference Committee

June 18, 2026

Written testimony in support of H.1527/S.2826: An Act relative to the Massachusetts rental voucher program

June 11, 2026

Comments In Response to HUD’s Proposal to Allow Time Limits and Work Requirements

May 1, 2026

Comments In Response to HUD’s Proposal to Deny Housing Assistance to Mixed-Status Families

April 21, 2026

Housing Instability Fact Sheets

March 25, 2026

Housing Instability Fact Sheet – Pennsylvania

March 24, 2026

Housing Instability Fact Sheet – Minnesota

March 24, 2026

Housing Instability Fact Sheet – Arkansas

March 24, 2026

Housing Instability Fact Sheet – Massachusetts

March 24, 2026

Statement on HUD Proposal to Deny Housing Assistance to Mixed-Status Families

February 23, 2026

Testimony in support of An Act promoting access to counsel and housing stability in Massachusetts (H.1952/S.968)

January 20, 2026

Oral Testimony in Support of S.968, An Act promoting access to counsel and housing stability in Massachusetts

November 20, 2025

Oral Testimony in Support of H.215, An Act supporting the development of children experiencing homelessness

November 20, 2025

At Health Commission summit, housing, economic stability are key to addressing mental health

October 29, 2025

“Stable Homes, Stronger Health” | By The Numbers, A Public Health Podcast presented by Polk County

October 27, 2025

Testimony to the MA Committee on Housing in Favor of Bills that Support Children and Families

September 22, 2025

Hardship-Free Households Are Associated With Optimal Caregiver and Child Health

August 29, 2025

Child Tax Credit Increased Food Security, Stable Housing among Young Children, but Many Eligible Families Didn’t

July 2, 2025

When children get evicted, they lose homes, health, chance at education and a future

May 9, 2025

National Low Income Housing Coalition 2025 Policy Forum

March 30, 2025

Direct Rental Assistance Response to Department of House and Urban Development

September 3, 2024

Statement on Changes to EA Shelter in Massachusetts

August 9, 2024

Lost Home, Lost Benefit: Families Who Move Due to Unaffordable Housing Are More Likely to Lose Access to Assistance Programs

August 6, 2024

Prevalence and Correlates of Unstable Housing Among US Children

May 28, 2024

Pediatrician at NIFA housing summit: ‘Health, wealth and housing — you can’t separate them.’

May 13, 2024

Diagnosing the youth mental health crisis? Don’t forget housing and extreme heat

April 29, 2024

In Hospitals, Affordable Housing Gets the Long-Term Investor It Needs

March 15, 2024

Involving Families in Public Policy Innovation to Reduce Cost-Driven Moves and Related Disruption

February 7, 2024

Moving Because of Unaffordable Housing and Disrupted Social Safety Net Access Among Children

February 7, 2024

2023 Year in Review

December 21, 2023

The Rent Relief Act of 2023

December 20, 2023

Kids face the greatest risk of eviction of any age group. The consequences can last a lifetime.

November 9, 2023

Remarks from Gloria Cabrera on the impact of expanded family tax credits during the Healthy Families Tax Credits Coalition celebratory event November 8, 2023

November 8, 2023

Children’s HealthWatch supports families by addressing food, housing insecurity

October 16, 2023

Massachusetts FY2024 budget makes key investments in children and families

August 29, 2023

Do Housing Affordability and Supply Challenges Need a Justice Lens?

August 25, 2023

What was the association between participation in federal COVID-19 relief programs and mitigation of food and housing hardships and disparities among families with young children?

April 26, 2023

Van Hollen, Young Introduce Bill to Boost Housing Mobility Vouchers, Increase Families’ Access to Opportunity

April 25, 2023

Pandemic relief efforts did not reach immigrant families

April 24, 2023

Immigrant Families Struggled the Most with Food Insecurity, Rent Payments during COVID

April 24, 2023

Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic on Food Insecurity and Inability to Pay Rent Hit Immigrant Families Hardest

April 21, 2023

Association Between Material Hardship in Families With Young Children and Federal Relief Program Participation by Race and Ethnicity and Maternal Nativity

April 21, 2023

To improve health, hospitals partner to provide housing

April 20, 2023

Eviction Solutions Require Cross-Sector Policy

April 14, 2023

Associations of household unmet basic needs and health outcomes among very low birth weight children

February 7, 2023

Haitian Migrants Face Unique Challenges Finding U.S. Housing

January 17, 2023

In record numbers, families without shelter are turning to Massachusetts emergency departments

December 22, 2022

An Atlanta hospital takes on the city’s housing crisis

December 5, 2022

Life in a single room

October 8, 2022

What if doctors could write prescriptions for adequate housing? More than anything else, it might improve a person’s overall health

September 21, 2022

‘Worrisome’ data link eviction to poor health in children

September 19, 2022

New study shows families with children at higher risk for eviction

September 19, 2022

Eviction and Household Health and Hardships in Families With Very Young Children

September 19, 2022

ʻI didn’t have to worryʼ – How the Child Tax Credit Helped Families Catch Up on Rent and Improved Health

August 5, 2022

The Child Tax Credit Benefits Whole Families: Preliminary data show improved food security and parental health

May 9, 2022

One tool to help create affordable housing — real estate transfer fees

March 24, 2022

Residents of color disproportionately hit by evictions after moratorium expired, says new report

March 23, 2022

Child hunger is expected to worsen

December 23, 2021

BMC Pediatrician Presents a Model for Stably Housing Families in White House Forum

December 21, 2021

‘This relief currently has an expiration date, but parenting does not’: Senator Markey calls for extending child tax credit

November 22, 2021

More than 101,000 New York City public school students faced homelessness last year

November 16, 2021

Housing and Neighborhoods as Root Causes of Child Poverty

November 2, 2021

Children’s HealthWatch Submits Written Testimony to the MA Joint Committee on Children, Families, and Persons with Disabilities

October 29, 2021

Children’s HealthWatch Letter to the House Financial Services Committee

October 20, 2021

Children’s HealthWatch Submits Written Testimony to the MA Joint Committee on Housing

October 15, 2021

The Housing Opportunity Gap

September 23, 2021

Filling the Housing Opportunity Gap

September 23, 2021

Closing the Housing Opportunity Gap

September 23, 2021

Closing the Housing Opportunity Gap

September 23, 2021

A Bold Federal Response to Eviction Protects Health and Housing Stability

September 23, 2021

Eviction: A Preventable Cause of Adverse Child and Family Health

September 23, 2021

Children’s HealthWatch Is Deeply Concerned With the Consequences of the Supreme Court’s Decision to Overturn the National Eviction Moratorium

September 1, 2021

A Bulwark Against the Storm: The Unequal Impact of COVID Relief Policies on Families With Young Children

September 1, 2021

Written Testimony to the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Housing

August 12, 2021

The Toll on Children’s Health during COVID-19

July 28, 2021

Bipartisan legislation introduced in Senate would address eviction crisis

June 25, 2021

Children’s HealthWatch Statement on Withdrawal of Proposed Revisions by USDA and HUD

June 18, 2021

New Collaboration Targets Key Boston Neighborhoods for Health Equity Initiatives

June 15, 2021

NNHS Virtual Housing and Zoning Day

May 6, 2021

NLIHC Fair Housing Q&A mini Series

April 19, 2021

COD’s Dialogue Over Distance Presents ‘Housing Is Health Care’

April 6, 2021

Screening Discordance and Characteristics of Patients With Housing-Related Social Risks

March 27, 2021

What Is Redlining? How Residential Segregation Shaped U.S. Cities

February 19, 2021

For good health outcomes, we need good housing incomes

January 23, 2021

Pandemic Creates Plague of Evictions

October 6, 2020

Evictions Damage Public Health. The CDC Aims To Curb Them ― For Now

September 29, 2020

Homelessness, Children, and COVID-19: A Looming Crisis

July 31, 2020

Housing Is Health: A Renewed Call for Federal Investments in Affordable Housing for Families With Children

July 9, 2020

Why more renters are being evicted in the middle of the pandemic

July 7, 2020

Housing is health: A renewed call for federal housing investments in affordable housing for families with children

June 30, 2020

Housing As A Prescription For Health, Now And In The Future

April 21, 2020

Housing prescriptions improve health outcomes in children, anxiety and depression in adults

April 8, 2020

Housing Intervention For Medically Complex Families Associated With Improved Family Health: Pilot Randomized Trial

April 7, 2020

The Joys Of Home Ownership

March 25, 2020

Hospitals Invest in Affordable Housing in Bid to Increase Patient Health

March 18, 2020

Children’s HealthWatch’s Public Comment To Oppose HUD’s Changes To Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing

March 13, 2020

Associations Between Federal Rental Housing Assistance and Childhood Asthma—A Renewed Call for Investing in Housing for Health

March 9, 2020

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