Andrew Sperling, director of legislative and policy advocacy at the National Alliance on Mental Illness Opportunity Starts at Home released its seventh podcast episode highlighting the intersections between affordable housing and mental health.
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Andrew Sperling, director of legislative and policy advocacy at the National Alliance on Mental Illness 
According to the National Low Income Housing Coalition, the average rent for a two bedroom apartment/house is $316 more a month in New Jersey than the national average monthly rent.
Priced Out documents that non-elderly NJ adults with disabilities and SSI are among the groups most affected by shortage of affordable rental housing.
If you have a disability in the US, you’re twice as likely to be poor as someone without a disability. You’re also far more likely to be unemployed.
Priced Out in 2014 reveals that people with disabilities receiving SSI needed to pay 104% of their income to rent a 1-bedroom unit.
