Out of Reach

Out of Reach 2001:
America’s Growing Wage-Rent Disparity

Jennifer G. Twombly, Research Director
Sheila Crowley, President
Nancy Ferris, Communications Director
Cushing N. Dolbeare, Founder and Chair Emeritus

This is the 2001 edition of Out of Reach. Click here for the most current edition.

    Many people know that millions of households in the United States cannot afford to pay for decent housing. Far fewer people know the extent of the affordability problem in their own communities. The National Low Income Housing Coalition produces Out of Reach in an effort to provide this information to policy makers and advocates. Out of Reach contains income and rental housing cost data for the fifty states, the District of Columbia, and the territory of Puerto Rico by state, metropolitan area, and county or, in the case of New England, town. For each, it calculates the income that renter households need in order to afford rental housing and estimates how many of these households cannot afford to pay the Fair Market Rent (FMR), and what they would need to earn to pay the rent and keep their housing costs at 30 percent of their income, the generally accepted standard for affordability established by Congress and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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Appendix: Explanation of Fair Market Rents

Press Release

2000 Out of Reach
1999 Out of Reach
1998 Out of Reach

Established in 1974, the National Low Income Housing Coalition is dedicated solely to ending America’s affordable housing crisis. NLIHC is committed to educating, organizing, and advocating to ensure safe, decent, affordable housing within healthy neighborhoods for everyone.

NLIHC provides up-to-date information, formulates policy and educates the public on housing needs and the strategies for the solutions.

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Out of Reach and additional data are also available on the Coalition’s web site at www.nlihc.org/oor2001.

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The data for nonmetro areas included in Out of Reach is being published in collaboration with:
Housing Assistance Council
Moises Loza, Executive Director
1025 Vermont Ave., NW, Suite 606
Washington, D.C. 20005
Tel.: 202-842-8600
Fax: 202-347-3441
Web: www.ruralhome.org

NLIHC would like to thank The Annie E. Casey Foundation for financial support for the publication of Out of Reach, and for the Foundation’s continued commitment to seeking solutions to the affordable housing crisis. The content of Out of Reach does not necessarily reflect the opinions or views of the Annie E. Casey Foundation.