Dee Dwyer / DCist/WAMU
A novel study on housing insecurity in the District estimates that more than 82,000 residents – 12% of the city’s population – do not have stable housing. The overwhelming majority of those are Black and Hispanic households.
Published Thursday by researchers from the Urban Institute, the report defines housing insecurity as living arrangements that are either unaffordable or inadequate, or so tenuous that occupants have to make frequent or unwanted moves. The researchers excluded unhoused people from their total.
Black residents comprise 41% of the D.C. population but 68% of those facing housing insecurity, the authors found. Hispanic residents represent 7% of the city’s population but 14% of the housing insecure population. Conversely, while white residents comprise 40% of D.C.’s population, only 9% of people facing housing insecurity are white.
One of the groups most affected by housing insecurity is children: An estimated one in four kids ages 17 and younger in D.C. face housing insecurity, the authors found.
“We think that the report has some pretty dire findings, and that is even one of our most conservative [estimates] of housing insecurity,” Lydia Lo, one of the study’s lead authors, told DCist/WAMU. “One of the striking statistics that we didn’t enjoy finding but that was really illuminating is just, what resources and options you have to weather insecurity vary dramatically by race and by what kind of household you’re in.”
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