Posted 13:45 PM 07/12/11

Housing Need of Persons with Disabilities in Santa Clara County


Actually, HUD identifies a disabled family like a household that consists of either one or more people, as a minimum one of whom is a grown-up (no less than 18) who has any kind of disability.
Who can be judged as a disable person? It's a person who has a physical, mental, cognitive, or emotional mutilation that is supposed to be of continued and imprecise period of time considerably hinders the person's ability to live without help, and as a result, the ability to live separately could be advanced by more appropriate housing circumstances.
A housing needs assessment for people with any kinds of disabilities was completed in San Jose in December 1997. A special study was made to determine housing needs of disable people, and then offer an analysis of the housing providing and straight connected services for these people. Adults from 18 to 64 were examined in this study. Here you can see the most major discoveries of the study:



1. The study that took place in 1990 showed that about 32,000 people in San Jose couldn't work because of disability. Just about 32,000 of these people had a mobility restriction, at the same time as about 18,700 had a self-care restriction.

• Reception of profits from Supplemental Security Income (SSI), a requirement plan, is a prospective sign of people with disabilities who may require housing support. So, in 1995 in San Jose about 14,000 grown-ups got SSI benefits because of either disability or blindness.
• As for year 1996, the study of the San Andreas Regional Center showed about 80% of their patients will need some kind of housing for the period of five years.
• Actually, the amount of disable grown-ups who seek reasonably priced housing will probable raise over time because of the self-sufficient living progress, enlarged typical schools and works and improved survival services for infants, kids, and grown-ups with severe disabilities.

2. The cost of housing is rather high relative to people earnings

• Actually, people needy SSI benefits are, in fact, haes very small income. The present highest SSI benefit, $640 for each month or $7,680 yearly, is approximately 50% under the income limit for a very low-income single-person household and strictly limits the sum that SSI receivers can spend on housing.
• A contrast of SSI benefits with Fair Market Rents in San Jose pointed out that a single-person family cannot pay for to rent a studio apartment ($866), unless these people pay much bigger than 100% of income for rental fee.
• Frankly speaking, the current growth of market rents will have a more considerable influence on disabled people who are needy SSI and Social Security Disability Income than the rest of the working populace, for the reason that these benefits have not increased with rising housing prices.

3. Disabled people are short of affordable housing

• Options in affordable housing developments helping disabled people are infrequent.
• There is unmet require for support in the Section 8 program.
Consistent with the Housing Choices Coalition, developmental disabled people also require affordable housing. There are as a minimum 5,557 developmental disabled persons in Santa Clara County, and about 1,837 of them have very small incomes, will be searching for and require reasonably priced housing. The typical income for a developmental disabled person is just 16.7 % of the middle income in Santa Clara County.

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