Out of Reach
Farther Out of Reach Than Ever
2002
Winton Pitcoff, Consultant
Sheila Crowley, President
Kim Schaffer, Communications
Director
Cushing N. Dolbeare, Founder
and Chair Emeritus
This
is the 2002 edition of Out of Reach. Click
here for the most current edition.
For information on ordering hard copies of OOR please call 202.662.1530 x245 or email OOR2003@nlihc.org. Despite the emphasis on homeownership and the marginalization of renters,
renter households still make up fully one-third of the households in the
United States – nearly 36 million households. Out of Reach is a
side-by-side comparison of wages and rents in every county, Metropolitan
Statistical Area (MSA), combined nonmetropolitan area and state in the
United States. For each jurisdiction, the report calculates the amount
of money a household must earn in order to afford a rental unit of a range
of sizes (0, 1, 2, 3, and 4 bedrooms) at the area’s Fair Market Rent (FMR),
based on the generally accepted affordability standard of paying no more
than 30% of income for housing costs. From these calculations the hourly
wage a worker must earn to afford the FMR for a two bedroom home is derived.
This figure is the Housing Wage.
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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 strategies for solutions.
Additional copies of Out of Reach are available from NLIHC.
Out of Reach and additional data are also available on the Coalition’s web site at www.nlihc.org/oor2002.
Requests for permission to make copies of the original material should
be mailed or faxed to:
Attn: Publications
National Low Income Housing Coalition
1012 14th Street, NW, Suite 610
Washington, DC 20005
Tel: (202)662-1530
Fax: (202)393-1973
http://www.nlihc.org
info@nlihc.org
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
