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A study found a lack of “housing is a huge stress for anyone.” However, “when children experience this, especially in early childhood, it can affect their health years down the line.” The Future of Families and Child Well-Being study found children “with any level of housing insecurity – low or high – had worse self-reported health at age 15 … They also reported worse mental health.” According to Healthy Steps National Director Rahil Briggs, the lack “of a safe and secure shelter creates ‘chronic and unrelenting’ stress for the parents or caregivers, which is then picked up by kids, as well.”
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That’s the finding of a new study in the journal Pediatrics, which says that teens who experienced housing insecurity earlier in life were more likely to report worse health.
But this is important evidence from a longitudinal study that follows children from infancy to adolescence and connects their experiences of housing insecurity with long term health, she adds.
Researcher Kristyn Pierce and her colleague in the department of pediatrics at NYU Grossman School of Medicine mined data from that study to get a good sense of kids’ experiences with housing from birth to age 15.
That included indicators like “homelessness, eviction, doubling up, meaning like overcrowding in the house and spending a night in a place that wasn’t meant for residents and also difficulty paying for rent or mortgage.”
Most past studies have looked at the health impacts of housing problems in adults, says Rahil Briggs, the national director of Healthy Steps, a program that supports low income families with kids between the ages of zero and three.
“It tells us that, you know, you need to intervene early,” says Dr. Suzette Oyeku, a pediatrician and the chief of Division of Academic General Pediatrics at Montefiore and Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
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