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Cityscape: Volume 16 Number 1 | Guest Editors' Introduction

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The goal of Cityscape is to bring high-quality original research on housing and community development issues to scholars, government officials, and practitioners. Cityscape is open to all relevant disciplines, including architecture, consumer research, demography, economics, engineering, ethnography, finance, geography, law, planning, political science, public policy, regional science, sociology, statistics, and urban studies.

Cityscape is published three times a year by the Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.


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Housing, Contexts, and the Well-Being of Children and Youth

Volume 16, Number 1

Mark D. Shroder

Michelle P. Matuga

Guest Editors' Introduction: Housing, Contexts, and the Well-Being of Children and Youth

Elizabeth Rudd
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Molly Irwin
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

The opinions expressed in this guest editors' introduction and in the following articles and commentaries are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official positions or policies of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, or the U.S. government.

 

From time to time, most families with children carefully consider the consequences of their housing and neighborhood choices for their children. Policymakers allocate many billions of dollars to a wide variety of housing and neighborhood-based activities in the hope that these activities will foster the healthy development of the next generation. When parents and policymakers look to the social sciences for hard evidence in support of their decisions, however, they will find much of the literature disappointingly inconclusive. This symposium is intended to help build a better evidence base.


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