HUD ISSUES REPORT ON NUMBER OF VERY LOW-INCOME RENTERS WITH DISABILITIES WHO EXPERIENCED ‘WORST CASE HOUSING NEEDS’ - released March 24 2011

HUDNo.11-034  (link to report)

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today issued a report summarizing efforts to the measure the extent of “worst case housing needs” among very low-income renter households with disabilities.  HUD’s 2009 Worst Case Housing Needs of People with Disabilities finds that approximately 1 million households that included nonelderly people with disabilities had worst case needs.