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ERIC Number: EJ670754
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2003
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-2984
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The Affordable Housing Crisis: Residential Mobility of Poor Families and School Mobility of Poor Children.
Crowley, Sheila
Journal of Negro Education, v72 n1 p22-38 Win 2003
Helping poor families increase their residential stability can have direct bearing on school stability and student academic achievement. Discusses the role of housing in child and family wellbeing; residential mobility and school performance; residential mobility and housing problems; housing affordability; (federal housing policy); homeownership; affordable rental housing; residential mobility and racial integration; and residential mobility and school vouchers. School- and housing-based strategies are presented. (Contains references.) (SM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Welfare, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs, Homeless People, Homeowners, Housing Needs, Low Rent Housing, Poverty, Racial Integration, Residential Patterns, Student Mobility
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Note: Theme issue: "Student Mobility: How Some Children Get Left Behind." Chester Hartman and Todd Michael Franke, guest editors.