Not Quite Out on the Streets: Examining Protective and Risk Factors for Housing Insecurity among Low-Income Urban Fathers

<p>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.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Department of Sociology

Year

2013

Author dc:creator

• Wynn, Colleen E.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Lauren McClain (Director), Jerry Daday, James Kanan

• Asset Vulnerability
• Housing
• Home Ownership-United States
• Fatherhood
• Fragile Families
• Urban Sociology
• Poverty
• Community-Based Research
• Family, Life Course, and Society
• Inequality and Stratification
• Sociology

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1258

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.wku.edu:theses-2261