The health, employment and education benefits of public housing

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Young, Peter
Phibbs, Peter
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2005
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The reduced housing costs, increased residential stability, reduced crowding and more socially diverse neighbourhoods provided to new public tenants benefit educational outcomes for children, the health and well being of tenants, and reduce health costs for government. As for employment, the findings were mixed: some new public tenants worked more, others worked less.The reduced housing costs, increased residential stability, reduced crowding and more socially diverse neighbourhoods provided to new public tenants benefit educational outcomes for children, the health and well being of tenants, and reduce health costs for government. As for employment, the findings were mixed: some new public tenants worked more, others worked less.
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Book Title
Research and Policy Bulletin 54
Issue
54
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© 2005 AHURI Limited. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) License, which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a licence identical to this one.
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Policy and administration
Social program evaluation
Housing policy