Rent is 'out of reach' for most low-wage workers in every U.S. state, according to a report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition — a crisis that disproportionately harms people of color.
New projections from the Aspen Institute show that up to 15 million people could be at risk of eviction after the CDC moratorium ended on July 31.hit the U.S. in March 2020, Schantayln Sherman, a single mother of a daughter with special needs, faced a series of medical and financial setbacks that left her unable to pay her rent.
According to affordable housing advocates and experts, Sherman's experience is part of a national crisis that predates the pandemic: a shortage of affordable housing for low-income communities.report "If poor people were paying 15 to 20% of their income on housing, poverty, as we know it, would have disappeared," he said."You can't attack these issues without government intervention aimed at reducing the costs of housing and raising its quality."in the NLIHC report that the findings highlight"the urgent need for our government to expand affordable housing."
Jonathan Cappelli, an affordable housing advocate and director of the Neighborhood Development Collaborative in Colorado, echoed Taylor's sentiment, describing the environment as"a landlord's market." Hannah Adams, a staff attorney at Southeast Louisiana Legal Services, said much of the current rental housing stock is"incredibly substandard, and really much of it is unlivable" -- and landlords have no incentive to improve it.
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