Housing and Children’s Healthy Development (HCHD) Study Series

The Housing and Children’s Healthy Development (HCHD) Study is the first longitudinal randomized controlled trial to examine how housing vouchers affect healthy development among children ages 3-10 in the United States. The study focuses on vouchers provided through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program.

HCHD focused on four main aims:

• to learn how parents make choices about where to live while negotiating tradeoffs between dwelling unit quality, neighborhood quality, and school quality;
• to assess how features of children’s social contexts—home, neighborhood, and school—combine to influence key cognitive, socio-emotional, and health outcomes among parents and their children;
• to examine how the quality of housing affects parenting practices and outcomes for children and their caregivers; and
• to enhance the study of child development through theoretical and methodological advances in the study of housing and the other social contexts related to housing.

HCHD was supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

Visit the Housing and Children’s Healthy Development (HCHD) Study Series page to access the data.