Appendix A: State and Local Housing Market Area Data

 

How to Use the Information in Appendix A

 

Because Appendix A presents rent and income information within a context that is familiar to state and local housing officials, it is an extremely helpful tool for housing advocacy purposes. It can be used by disability advocates to engage state and local housing officials, and provide specific information on the housing needs of people with disabilities in that housing market area. The figure below highlights one section of Appendix A, illustrating the housing affordability problems confronting people with disabilities receiving SSI in the federally defined housing market areas of the State of Louisiana.

 

In 2006, Louisiana had SSI benefits equal to $603 per month.  Statewide, this income was equal to only 21.2 percent of the median income.  To rent an efficiency unit, a person with a disability would have to pay 92.2 percent of their SSI benefits and 101.5 percent of the monthly benefits for a one-bedroom unit. The figure also illustrates the relationship between SSI and Housing Wage data.

 

Within Louisiana’s federally defined housing market areas the cost of a one-bedroom rental unit ranged from a low of 61.2 percent of SSI benefits in the Iberville Parish Metropolitan Statistical Area to a high of 138.6 percent in the New Orleans market area.

 

 

 

State and Metropolitan Statistical Area		SSI Monthly Payment	SSI as % Median Income	% SSI for Efficiency Apt.	% SSI for 1-Bedroom	NLIHC Housing Wage
Louisiana
	Alexandria	$603.00	23.0%	64.5%	69.8%	$8.10
	Baton Rouge	$603.00	18.4%	98.8%	107.6%	$12.48
	Houma/Bayou Cane/Thibodaux	$603.00	20.9%	71.8%	72.3%	$8.38
	Iberville Parish	$603.00	24.8%	61.0%	61.2%	$7.10
	Lafayette	$603.00	19.6%	74.3%	85.2%	$9.88
	Lake Charles	$603.00	20.3%	69.8%	78.6%	$9.12
	Monroe	$603.00	21.5%	63.5%	71.8%	$8.33
	New Orleans/Metairie/Kenner	$603.00	19.8%	125.2%	138.6%	$16.08
	Shreveport/Bossier City	$603.00	20.9%	72.3%	83.3%	$9.65
	Non-Metropolitan Areas	$603.00	25.8%	60.7%	64.5%	$7.48
	State Average	$603.00	21.2%	92.2%	101.5%	$11.77

 

 

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