How Housing and Education Partnerships Can Support Transition Age Youth (TAY)

Across the nation’s school districts, disparities in educational outcomes persist in regard to race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, foreign-born status and other factors. Educators have come to realize that in order to eliminate these disparities and set all students up for success, interventions beyond the classroom are required. Thus, in communities nationwide, cradle-to-career systems and partnerships are working to improve educational outcomes for all youth by providing them with the support they need from birth to college to career.

A growing body of evidence establishes a vital link between children’s success in school and the housing bundle, i.e., the five-part framework housing advocates say is essential to upward mobility: housing quality, housing affordability, housing stability, neighborhood context, and housing that builds assets and wealth. [Continue Reading Here]