The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) will host a virtual briefing on September 19 from 4 to 5 pm ET to highlight findings from a recent report on the determinants of intergenerational poverty and the ways in which long-term poverty cycles can be significantly reduced through housing policy. The briefing will include insights from Mary E. Patillo, PhD, a member of NASEM’s Committee on Policies and Programs to Reduce Intergenerational Poverty and the Harold Washington Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Black Studies at Northwestern University. Register for the webinar here.
The briefing will focus on findings from NASEM’s congressionally mandated report Reducing Intergenerational Poverty, which finds that approximately 10 million children in the U.S. are members of families with incomes below the poverty line. Intergenerational poverty occurs when children who grow up in families with low incomes experience low-income status in adulthood. The report examines the key drivers of intergenerational poverty, identifies potential policy and program interventions, and recommends actions to address existing gaps in research. The report highlights the effects of affordable housing on children’s economic, health, and educational outcomes, recommends expansion of the Housing Choice Voucher program to reduce intergenerational poverty, and identifies the “Family Stability and Opportunity Voucher Act” (FSOVA) as an effective policy for expanding and enhancing the HCV program. The FSOVA is a top policy priority for NLIHC’s Opportunity Starts at Home (OSAH) campaign, and its enactment would represent a major step forward in tackling the nation’s housing crisis.
Register to attend the event here.
Read the report highlights and the NASEM issue brief on housing.