Neighborhood/Community

Healthy children can only develop in the context of healthy neighborhoods and communities. In recognition of this knowledge, most work of the Center includes a neighborhood/community component. The Center’s projects focused exclusively in this area examine the influence of neighborhood processes on children of different ages and the effects of residential change on low-income families, with particular attention given to the intersection of neighborhood and family resources and the opportunities and challenges they present for enhancing the well-being of children.

Current Neighborhood/Community Projects:

• Measuring the Effects of In-Place Subsidized Housing: A Randomized Experiment for NYC Children and Families 
• Examining the Impact of Rental Assistance Demonstration on Children Living in Public Housing Communities

Completed Neighborhood/Community Projects:

• Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN)
• Parenting and Adolescent Risk Behavior in Context 
• Neighborhood Context and Adolescent Psychological and Behavioral Health 
• Young Children’s Self-Regulation in an Urban Context 
• Immigrant Differences in School-Age Children’s Verbal Trajectories 
• Life Course and HIV 
• The Yonkers Family and Community Project 
• Moving to Opportunity Experiment: A Randomized Study of Mobility 
• A Multilevel Study of Young Children’s Emotional Health: Individual, Family, and Neighborhood Influences 
• Children’s Exposure to Violence Over Space and Time