Is Housing Stability Essential for Family Well-Being? A Forum on the Implic...

Is Housing Stability Essential for Family Well-Being?

A Forum on the Implications of the Family Options Study

Abt Associates cordially invites you to a dialogue prompted by new evidence from the Family Options Study on the effects of providing permanent housing subsidies to homeless families. The forum will address the results of the study, the effects of stable housing on child and family well-being, and the policy implications.

PARTICIPANTS INCLUDE:

Stephen Bell, Senior Fellow, Vice President, Social and Economic Policy, Abt Associates

Jennifer Cannistra, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation

Ron Haskins, co-director, the Brookings Center on Children and Families and Budgeting for National Priorities Project (moderator)

Aletha C. Huston, Pricilla Pond Flawn Regents Professor of Child Development at the University of Texas at Austin

Ianna Kachoris, Program Officer, the MacArthur Foundation

Jill Khadduri, Senior Fellow and Principal Associate, Social and Economic Policy, Abt Associates (moderator)

Jeffrey Lubell, Director of Housing and Community Initiatives, Abt Associates

Sandra Newman, Director, Center on Housing, Neighborhoods and Communities, Johns Hopkins University

Katherine M. O'Regan, Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Kathy Stack, Vice President of Evidence-Based Innovation, The Laura and John Arnold Foundation

More than 150,000 families experience homelessness each year and are forced to seek emergency shelter or face life on the street. The Family Options study, led by Abt Associates for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, examined the best ways to help these families. The early results not only provide the first clear evidence about the best policies to help families who experience homelessness, but also contribute to the field’s growing understanding of the potential for stable, affordable housing to benefit children and families in other ways, such as reducing economic and psychological stress, supporting family stability, and reducing food insecurity.

Join us
Monday, September 21
9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
The Newseum
(Knight Conference Room)
555 Pennsylvania Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20001

Breakfast & Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. Additional program updates to come. We look forward to seeing you there.