Rental Housing Discrimination On The Basis Of Mental Disabilities PDF Download

More than 15 million people in the United States have some type of mental disability (MD). Many of these individuals seek community-based housing in the rental market. As a result of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Olmstead v. L.C., 527 U.S. 581 (1999), an increasing number of individuals with disabilities are moving from nursing homes and other institutional and segregated settings into community-based settings. As a result, equality of access to the rental housing market has become even more of a critical policy issue. This study represents the first comprehensive examination of discrimination in the rental housing market against people with MD, specifically focusing on people with mental illness (MI) and those with intellectual or developmental disability (I/ DD). The goal of the study is to increase the understanding of the forms and prevalence of housing discrimination against this community as its members seek market-rate rental housing.