New Study Finds Disabled Housing Needs Twice as High as HUD Estimates

The Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD) Housing Task Force has released the results of a new study that estimates that 1.2-1.4 million very low income non-elderly disabled households without children had worst case housing needs in 2005. This range is more than twice the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s estimate of 542,000 non-elderly disabled households published in HUD’s most recent worst case housing needs report to Congress, Affordable Housing Needs 2005 (May 2007)

The CCD Housing Task Force study – The Hidden Housing Crisis: Worst Case Housing Needs Among Non-Elderly Adults With Disabilities – analyzed data on the housing of persons with disabilities from the 2005 American Community Survey to estimate worst case needs among non-elderly adult renters with disabilities. Worst case needs, a concept designed to count the number of renters with acute needs for rental housing assistance, are defined as unassisted renters with income below half of their area’s median family income who either pay more than half of their income for housing or live in severely substandard housing. (Continue Reading Full Press Release)

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