Policy Research Brief: Understanding Community Poverty, Housing, and Disability

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Part of the Policy Research Brief series.

Author(s)

Derek K Nord PhD, Kristin Hamre, Kelly Nye-Lengerman PhD

Editor(s)

Derek K Nord PhD

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Cost:

Free

Description

A brief aiming to provide policy makers, advocates, and researchers a tool to better understand the pervasiveness of poverty affecting people with disabilities, both locally and across the nation. By providing detailed comparisons across every county in the nation using an array of online, interactive visual features, the impact of poverty on people with and without disabilities is detailed in meaningful ways, especially the relationship between poverty and housing. Among the findings, the brief shows that poverty affects people with disabilities at much higher rates across the vast majority of U.S. counties, and these poverty rates have a direct relationship with local housing indicators

Details

Date

October 2014 

Type

Brief 

Edition

Volume 24, Number 3

Publisher

Research and Training Center on Community Living (RTC-CL)