Publication Date

5-2013

Advisor(s) - Committee Chair

Lauren McClain (Director), Jerry Daday, James Kanan

Degree Program

Department of Sociology

Degree Type

Master of Arts

Abstract

It has long been acknowledged that housing is essential for access to employment, social services, healthcare, and other forms of assistance that help move people out of poverty. Through identifying dimensions of housing insecurity, policymakers, as well as researchers, will have a better understanding of the protective factors that make families more secure and the risk factors that raise their level of insecurity. These analyses use resident and non-resident, low-income, urban fathers’ responses to the five publicly available waves of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing (n = 4378) dataset to examine the relationship between protective and risk factors and housing insecurity. As access to protective factors increases, fathers’ risk of housing semi-insecurity and insecurity decreases, and as fathers are more exposed to risk factors, both their housing semi-insecurity and insecurity risks increase.

Disciplines

Community-Based Research | Family, Life Course, and Society | Inequality and Stratification | Sociology

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