Families and Housing Markets: Obstacles to Locating Suitable Housing

摘要

The importance of housing as a service for all Americans is affirmed by numerous acts of Congress providing Government support for the housing industry, forbidding housing suppliers from denying anyone equal access to housing markets, and providing housing to families in need. Yet evidence indicates that some families are still denied access to some housing markets and are disproportionately located in adequate housing. Data from the Annual Housing Survey show that members of minority, female - headed, or large households are more likely to be poorly housed. Households with black, Hispanic, or female heads are less likely to own homes than the total population. Black and Hispanic households are approximately twice as likely to live in flawed housing. Over 11 percent of all households with children were living in inadequate housing in 1977, a proportion slightly higher than the population as a whole.