Furman Center and Institute for Education and Social Policy Release Study on Foreclosures and Kids

April 20, 2011: The second in a two-part series on the effects of the foreclosure crisis on children, Foreclosure and Kids: Does Losing Your Home Mean Losing Your School? addresses the relationship between foreclosure and student mobility. New York University’s Institute for Education and Social Policy (IESP) and Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy find that New York City public school students living in buildings entering foreclosure are more likely to switch schools than their peers, less likely to leave the school system, and that their new schools tend to be lower performing than the ones they left. Read the press release. The next stage in this research will examine the effects of housing instability on children’s educational outcomes.