Everyone deserves a place to call home. But,

• Housing supply isn’t available to meet the demand for people with developmental disabilities and veterans.

• Housing options are often not affordable for people with limited financial means—and Social Security pays less than $1,000 per month for all living costs for those who receive it.

• Available housing isn’t appropriately built to meet the special needs of many people with developmental disabilities, and veterans with physical challenges, and isn’t built to facilitate aging in place.

• The lack of transportation and planned activities for these populations worsens their social and physical isolation.

  Did You Know

• There are over 7.37 million adults with intellectual/developmental disabilities in the United States.

• Almost 900,000 live with caregivers who are 60+
  Source: Residential Information Systems Project 2020, University of Minnesota, Research and Training Center on Community Living, Institute on Community Integration

• There are over 152,000 wounded warriors in the United States

• About 1 in 10 warrior households live in poverty

• 42% of warriors reported they did not have enough money to make ends meet sometime in the last year.

  Source: 2021 Wounded Warrior Project Survey

Everyone deserves to feel safe, valued, useful, and independent.

Personal Safety First.

• 67% of autistic individuals are victims of abuse

• 63% of individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities are victims of abuse

• 1 in 4 warriors have had suicidal thoughts in the past year

Imagine how you would feel.

• 39% of individuals on the autism spectrum no longer see friends after high school

• 87% of autistic adults live with their parents, but only 22% want to live there

• 55% of autistic individuals have had no employment in the six years after high school

• 62% of warriors report that they are lonely

• At least 13% of warriors are unemployed.

Source: Autism Housing Network and the 2021 Wounded Warrior Project Survey