Housing Sense Blogger, Kim Skobba
A friend and colleague of mine, Kim Skobba, has a great blog for people who want to be in the know regarding affordable housing … Housing Sense. She’s only been blogging for a little over a month, but every post tips me off to new research I need to know about. What’s even better is that she extracts the real-zinger data and offers her own common sense spin.
Next week, Kim and I have decided we are going to be Trading (Blog) Spaces for a day. She will be a guest blogger on HOME Line’s Policy Blog, and I will offer my two cents to Housing Sense.
If you haven’t already clicked on the link to her blog, here’s a teaser of her post on the impact of foreclosures on Latino families …
The loss of a home through foreclosure is no doubt a traumatic experience. In their groundbreaking work, The National Council of La Raza and Center for Community Capital look at the social, emotional, and economic effects of foreclosure on Latino families. The study, The Foreclosure Generation: The Long-Term Impact of the Housing Crisis on Latino Children and Families, examines the impact of foreclosure on family relationships, post-foreclosure housing accommodations, need for public assistance, social networks, and children’s behavior and performance in school for 25 Latino families.
The study provides a sobering look at the emotional toll and family instability associated with the loss of a home. While the study examines the loss of housing through foreclosure, I think that the experiences of the families in this study provide insight into the social and emotional impact of other types of forced moves (eviction, sale of property, renters in foreclosed properties).
Visit Kim’s blog for a snapshot of the report’s conclusions.
