RT Article
T1 Mental Health of High-Risk Urban Youth: The Housing Subsidies Paradox
JF Race and social problems
VO 13
IS 1
SP 22
OP 33
A1 Musa, George J.
A1 Cheslack-Postava, Keely
A1 Svob, Connie
A1 González Hernández, Diana Rosa 1970-
A1 Tang, Huilan
A1 Duque-Villa, Yuly
A1 Keating, John William 1959-
A1 Amsel, Lawrence
A1 Bresnahan, Michaeline
A1 Ryan, Megan
A1 Baccarelli, Andrea A.
A1 Prada, Diddier
A1 Chiang, Po-Huang
A1 Jardines, Christopher
A1 Geronazzo-Alman, Lupo
A1 Goodwin, Renee D.
A1 Wicks, Judith
A1 Hoven, Christina W.
A2 Cheslack-Postava, Keely
A2 Svob, Connie
A2 González Hernández, Diana Rosa 1970-
A2 Tang, Huilan
A2 Duque-Villa, Yuly
A2 Keating, John William 1959-
A2 Amsel, Lawrence
A2 Bresnahan, Michaeline
A2 Ryan, Megan
A2 Baccarelli, Andrea A.
A2 Prada, Diddier
A2 Chiang, Po-Huang
A2 Jardines, Christopher
A2 Geronazzo-Alman, Lupo
A2 Goodwin, Renee D.
A2 Wicks, Judith
A2 Hoven, Christina W.
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1751905276
AB Housing subsidies, including public housing and Sect. 8 vouchers, are key components of the social safety net, intended to promote family and child welfare. Studies evaluating the impact of housing subsidies on child and adolescent mental health, however, are generally inconclusive. This may reflect variation in the influence by type of subsidies to income, improved physical environment, increased access to resources, and improved perception of neighborhood safety. Further, most prior research focused on housing subsidies failed to simultaneously formally assess child psychopathology. In the present study, we examine, among adolescents (ages 9–17) from a low-income, urban minority area, the association of housing with psychiatric symptoms and disorders, as well as with their social functioning. The data were obtained from the Stress & Justice Study (S&J) baseline survey, an investigation designed to examine impact of parental criminal justice system involvement (CJSI) on their children’s mental health. Housing type during the past year was categorized from parental report as public housing, Sect. 8, both, or neither. Child mental health was assessed with the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children (DISC). Additionally, family resources and physical quality of the housing environment by housing type was assessed, and we tested whether these dimensions mediated associations of housing type with the adolescent’s current mental health outcomes. We found that while internalizing and externalizing disorders and impairment were attenuated by individual characteristics (e.g., SES, CJSI), internalizing and externalizing symptom counts were significantly more prevalent among children in subsidized housing, compared to those in non-subsidized housing, after controlling for individual characteristics. These findings have the potential to inform whether, and through which mechanisms, housing subsidies are associated with adolescent mental health.
K1 Housing vouchers
K1 Section 8
K1 Child psychopathology
K1 Mental Health
K1 Housing subsidies
K1 public housing
DO 10.1007/s12552-021-09322-7