Adult learners, particularly those raising children, often return to college seeking greater economic security, including a higher-paying job and better living conditions. But a new report from New America finds that for some student parents, enrollment may coincide with greater housing instability.
The report, produced in collaboration with the Eviction Lab, a Princeton University–based research organization that studies evictions nationwide, draws on court records from 73.2 million defendants in eviction cases between 2000 and 2018. Researchers linked those records with American Community Survey data to estimate eviction filing rates by age, college enrollment status and parenting status.
While eviction risk generally declines with age, the report found that student parents aged 35 to 39 with school-age children faced an eviction filing rate of 22 percent—double the 11 percent rate for their nonstudent peers.
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