Finding affordable housing is always a challenge, but it’s especially difficult for low-income people with a disability—homelessness can be a real risk when appropriate, affordable housing is difficult to access. Approximately half a million single adults and heads of households who used homeless ...
Housing Choices, which supports and creates affordable housing for people with developmental disabilities, will provide case management. Spokesperson Gia Pham said the nonprofit has seen people with disabilities become homeless after their parents die, leaving them without care. She said fewer than...
Participants completed baseline surveys via computer-aided personal interviewing (CAPI) using REDCap which lasted 45 min on average. Following survey completion, participants were randomized into intervention group (guaranteed income or waitlist control) and provided with resources for local services and a...
Supplemental Security Income, or SSI, provides monthly benefits for some people who cannot work due to a disability and for some elderly people who do not qualify for Social Security retirement benefits. People must have limited income and resources to qualify for SSI. Because they have low incom...
Research & Practice in Intellectual & Developmental DisabilitiesConnellan, J. (2015) Commentary on Housing for People with Intellectual Disabilities and the National Disability Insurance Scheme Reforms (Wiesel 2015), Research and Practice in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2(1), pp.55-59....
In 1974, the federal government expanded the Fair Housing Act to include protections for gender, and in 1988, to protect families with children and people with disabilities.7Various state and local jurisdictions have added specific protections for sexual orientation and other categories. ...
Fair Housing for All It is unacceptable that more than 50 years after the passage of the Fair Housing Act, people still face housing discrimination on the basis of race, sex, gender, religion, country of origin, or disability. That has got to end. We must strengthen and expand the Fair ...
Our survey found that the time between application and installation is, on average, 22 weeks (eight weeks for a decision and 14 weeks for installation), although some local authorities have waiting times of a year or more. Disabled people face particular problems in the private rented sector, ...
In another Boston study, the authors reported elevated prevalence of being ever diagnosed with diabetes among people living in public housing versus people not living in public housing, although prevalence ratio was no longer statistically significant after controlling for race/ethnicity, income, and ...
experiencing stress regarding money for food or housing.CONCLUSIONS: Having a disability is more predictive of experiencing stress about having enough money for housing and healthy food than employment, though variables such as low income and having a health plan, dependent on employment are ...