AFFORDABILITY AND ACCESSIBILITY ARE SIGNIFICANT CONCERNS
- Modestly priced rental housing is disappearing; between 2005 and 2015, the number of rental units costing less than $800 per month declined while the number costing over $2,000 per month jumped by 1.5 million (pp. 3, 27-28 + interactive chart).
- Three-quarters of renter households eligible for rental assistance on the basis of their income do not receive it (pp. 34-35, 37).
- Although 17 million households include at least one person with an ambulatory disability, only 1 percent of the nation’s housing stock has five critical accessibility features (pp. 36-37).
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