Housing disruption has become a defining feature of contemporary American life, with rising housing costs, volatile credit markets, and widening inequality fueling increasing rates of foreclosure, eviction, and forced moves across the socioeconomic spectrum. Although lower-income households remain especially vulnerable, the COVID-19 pandemic and recent housing market turbulence revealed that even middle- and high-wealth families are not immune to instability. Importantly, these disruptions are stratified by race/ethnicity, nativity, and class, with Black and Latino households and immigrant families facing elevated risks while some Asian and White households, particularly in the highest wealth strata, remain better insulated. Despite the growing prevalence of these shocks, research has focused largely on documenting their occurrence rather than their consequences, leaving a critical gap in our understanding of how housing instability is associated with health. This gap is especially consequential for late adolescents and young adults, for whom disruptions in housing security may derail the establishment of physical health habits, mental health trajectories, and access to care that set the foundation for long-term well-being.
Aim 1: Examine the association between housing disruption and late adolescent/early adult health.
Aim 2: Explore how this association varies by race/ethnicity, nativity, and socioeconomic class.
Aim 3: Assess how kinship and other networks buffer the effects of housing disruption, recognizing that these supports vary systematically across race/ethnicity, nativity, and class.