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Accession Number: 200842
Title: Priced Out in 2008
Author(s): Cooper, Emily
Korman, Henry
O’Hara, Ann
Zovistoski, Andrew
Publication Date: 2009
Availability: Technical Assistance Collaborative, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, http://www.tacinc.org/pubs/pricedout/2008.html
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Descriptors: housing affordability, disability, Housing Choice vouchers
Abstract: Across the United States in 2008, people with disabilities with the lowest incomes faced an extreme housing affordability crisis as rents for moderately priced studio and one-bedroom apartments soared above their entire monthly income. This crisis is documented in Priced Out in 2008—a study of the severe housing affordability problems of people with disabilities who must survive on incomes far below the federal poverty line. The study compares the federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments of people with serious and long-term disabilities to U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Fair Market Rents for modestly priced rental units. Priced Out is published every two years by the Technical Assistance Collaborative (TAC) and the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD) Housing Task Force to shine a spotlight on our nation's most compelling—and least understood—housing affordability crisis. [Publisher Abstract]