Bouncing Between Homes: Hypermobility and its impact on children’s education and communities at large

Excessive residential mobility or housing “churn” experienced by families in precarious socioeconomic circumstances is called hypermobility, and it has far-reaching effects on children, their parents, schools, and communities. This brief highlights the problems that result from hypermobility including those related to health and educational outcomes for individual children, the schools they attend, and communities at large.