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
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.
