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Conclusion 7-2: While it appears that married, two-parent family struc tures may, in fact, reduce intergenerational poverty, we lack direct evidence of policies and programs that are capable of promoting such structures.
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The role of neighborhood crime and crime-related interventions are covered in Chapter 9. HOUSING AS A DRIVER OF INTERGENERATIONAL POVERTY School-age children spend a majority of their time on activities (including sleep)
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Households with cash incomes below the official poverty line are more than twice as likely as nonpoor households to experience inadequate housing, and Native American, Black, and Latino households are disadvantaged relative to White households. Homeownership, which we discuss in greater detail below, is related to better housing quality (Haurin et al., 2002)
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SOURCE: Data from U.S. Census Bureau, American Housing Survey, 2019.
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Native American, Asian, Black, and Latino households are more likely than White households to be multigenerational and to include extended kin, and these arrangements may be beneficial for other outcomes (Cross, 2018)
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Racial disparities in asset ownership and housing wealth may explain racial gaps in intergenerational mobility (Fox, 2016; Toney & Robertson, 2022) , a topic explored further in Chapter 6.
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The standard measure of affordability is "housing cost burden," or the condition of paying more than 30% (or 50%, defined as severe housing cost burden) of gross income toward housing.
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Renters are more burdened than owners, lowincome households are more burdened than higher-income households, and Black, Latino, and Asian households are more burdened than White households. Native American households experience slightly higher rates of housing cost burden than White households, but this fact is accompanied by significantly higher rates of overcrowding and lower housing quality in tribal areas (U.S.
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. We found no studies on the direct relationship between housing costs and intergenerational poverty.
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