Facts & Statistics
People with disabilities in supportive housing reduce their use of costly systems, especially emergency health care and corrections. [Center on Budget & Policy Priorities]
Supportive housing can help people with disabilities receive more appropriate health care and may improve their health. [Center on Budget & Policy Priorities]
SUPPORTIVE HOUSING
Supportive housing helps people with disabilities live stably in the community and reduces their use of costly systems. [Center on Budget & Policy Priorities]
People in other groups, including seniors trying to stay in the community as they age and families trying to keep their children out of foster care, likely also benefit from supportive housing. [Center on Budget & Policy Priorities]
THE CURRENT STATE OF HOUSING
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7.37 million adults are living with IDD
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6.14 million of these adults do not receive publicly funded residential supports (83%)​
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56% want a job
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48% are lonely
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70% are abused
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27K are living in nursing facilities
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Only 27% chose their home
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In the US:
HOW DOES THIS COMPARE TO THE NEED
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853,000 are living with a caregiver over 60
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77,000 are waiting for services needed within the next year
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[Madison House Autism Foundation]
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4.903 million Adults with IDD live in the US
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3.775 million of these adults do not receive publicly funded residential supports (77%) while only 1,127 million of theses Adults do. ​
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Where do they live
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631,000 live with family (56%)
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496,000 do not live with family (44%)
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For those who do not live with their family where do they live
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127,000 in their own home (27%), while 73% do not live in their own home
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290,000 in a group home
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44,000 in foster care
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34,000 in nursing care
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Less than a 1,000 in psychiatric care
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THE CURRENT STATE OF CAREGIVING
In Wisconsin currently 64% of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities live with family and 25% of these family caregivers (typically parents) are over 60 years old. [Governor's Task Force on Caregiving] [Wisconsin's Family Caregiver Support Programs]
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The pressures on younger family members and the paid workforce can be expected to increase when higher percentages of elderly parents must discontinue their care. An increasing number of siblings of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities are already taking on care responsibilities for their brothers and sisters as their parents' age.​ [Governor's Task Force on Caregiving]
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49% of Direct Care Workers overall earn less than 200% of poverty, and 23% of DCWs working in home health earn below 100% FPL [Governor's Task Force on Caregiving]
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