A Picture of Disability and Designated Housing

A Picture of Disability and Designated Housing

Multi-Disciplinary Research Team

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development | Office of Policy Development and Research

A Picture of Disability and Designated Housing

Multi-Disciplinary Research Team

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Policy Development and Research

March 6, 2015

Submitted by: Economic Systems Inc. Falls Church, Virginia

Prepared by: Casey J. Dawkins, Ph.D., and Mark Miller National Center for Smart Growth University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

About MDRT

PD&R developed the Multidisciplinary Research Team (MDRT) vehicle to manage a team of qualified researchers. Researchers are selected for their expertise to produce an array of high quality, short-turnaround research. MDRT researchers use a variety of HUD and external data sources to answer research questions relating to HUD's priority policies and strategic goals.

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The contents of this report are the views of the contractor and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development or the U.S. government.

Table of Contents

Introduction and Overview ............................................................................................................. 3 Background: HUD Programs Serving the Needs of the Disabled .................................................. 4

Defining Disability................................................................................................................ 5 Data and Research Methods............................................................................................................ 6 Prevalence of Disabilities in the U.S. and in HUD Programs ........................................................ 7 Availability of Assisted HUD Units in Relation to Need ............................................................. 17

Supply of and Demand for Accessible Assisted Units ....................................................... 20 Conclusions and Policy Implications............................................................................................ 26 References..................................................................................................................................... 29 Appendix A. Explanation of data products................................................................................... 30

Data products derived from public summary files.............................................................. 30 Data products derived from HUD administrative data ....................................................... 32 Public Housing Statistics .................................................................................................... 36 Multifamily Assisted Program Statistics ............................................................................ 37 Assisted Unit Count ............................................................................................................ 39 Supply and Demand Statistics ............................................................................................ 39 Appendix B. Variable Codebook .................................................................................................. 42

List of Tables

Table 1: Disabled persons per 1,000 occupied housing units by sex and age category ........... 8 Table 2: Disabled and nondisabled persons per 1000 occupied housing units by age, poverty status, and geography...................................................................................................................... 9 Table 3: Number of households with at least one disabled person by type of disability, tenure status, and household income as a percent of HAMFI (in thousands).......................................... 10 Table 4: Percentage of households with at least one disabled person by type of disability, tenure status, and household income as a percent of HAMFI ...................................................... 12 Table 5: Number of disabled members per 1000 HUD-assisted units by sex and age ........... 14 Table 6: Number of HUD-assisted households containing at least one disabled person per 1000 HUD-assisted units, by household income (as a percent of HAMFI) ................................. 16

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Table 7: Summary statistics, among HUD-assisted households in public housing ................ 18 Table 8: Multifamily housing statistics .................................................................................. 19 Table 9: Summary of supply and demand for affordable housing among disabled households ....................................................................................................................................................... 21 Table 10: Summary of supply and demand for affordable housing among disabled households, by quartile using county level averages (among counties with HUD assistance) .... 23

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