Adequately Housed? Understanding the Experiences of People with Disabilities Milwaukee County’s Rental Housing Market
Mentor 1
Yaidi Cancel-Martinez
Start Date
28-4-2023 12:00 AM
Description
Disability status is the highest-ranked cause of housing violations in the rental housing market. Interrogation into public rental housing communities exposes limited knowledge in addressing how individuals with Disabilities navigate the rental housing markets and are impacted by discrimination and inaccessibility. The dominant explanation for this increasing trend in housing discrimination is the failure to provide reasonable accommodation, and failure to secure long-term support services needed to maintain independent housing status. Previous research has conducted comprehensive literature reviews and cross-sectional examinations of pre-existing data to further understand Disability-related housing discrimination. These evaluations have been unable to bridge legislative gaps and provide adequate protections on local, state, and federal levels. This study performs a brief literature review as well as a quantitative and qualitative analysis of microdata samples from the U.S (United States) Census, to further understand the perceived conditions of rental housing for people with Disabilities. Our study investigates housing testing methods, integration of individuals with Disabilities into testing practices utilized by Fair housing agencies, and reasonable accommodation requests protected under federal U.S legislation. This paper highlights findings of a lack of government enforcement to establish non-discriminatory housing alternatives where residents can interrogate in public housing communities.
Adequately Housed? Understanding the Experiences of People with Disabilities Milwaukee County’s Rental Housing Market
Disability status is the highest-ranked cause of housing violations in the rental housing market. Interrogation into public rental housing communities exposes limited knowledge in addressing how individuals with Disabilities navigate the rental housing markets and are impacted by discrimination and inaccessibility. The dominant explanation for this increasing trend in housing discrimination is the failure to provide reasonable accommodation, and failure to secure long-term support services needed to maintain independent housing status. Previous research has conducted comprehensive literature reviews and cross-sectional examinations of pre-existing data to further understand Disability-related housing discrimination. These evaluations have been unable to bridge legislative gaps and provide adequate protections on local, state, and federal levels. This study performs a brief literature review as well as a quantitative and qualitative analysis of microdata samples from the U.S (United States) Census, to further understand the perceived conditions of rental housing for people with Disabilities. Our study investigates housing testing methods, integration of individuals with Disabilities into testing practices utilized by Fair housing agencies, and reasonable accommodation requests protected under federal U.S legislation. This paper highlights findings of a lack of government enforcement to establish non-discriminatory housing alternatives where residents can interrogate in public housing communities.
