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When little kids don’t have stable housing, it can affect their health later

A homeless family with a two-year-old child on Towne Avenue in Los Angeles

Researchers following a group of American children for decades found that even short periods of housing instability increased the chances of poor mental and physical health years later.

(Image credit: Myung J. Chun)

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