entitledrichpeople:

Good article, but it again overlooks the harsh reality that for physically disabled people, most housing excludes them by default, including the cheaper rent housing in most cases.  Typically, even the majority of public housing will not be accessible for a wheelchair user, and the private rent market is even more stark.  Violations of the already inadequate ADA are constant, and the burden of trying to enforce it is put onto disabled people who are already struggling and lacking resources.

Most housing in the US is not wheelchair accessible, or accessible to people who cannot go up stairs all of the time.  You’re physically excluded from the beginning.

Whatever the baseline rent in a city is, people with mobility impairments almost always pay more and face a far, far starker housing shortage.  Take a quick look at places available for rent where you live and ask yourself how many of them are wheelchair accessible.  Not fucking many typically.  

People with mobility impairments, wheelchair users, etc. are excluded from most housing and most public spaces in the US.

Fuck, a lot of homeless shelters and domestic abuse shelters cannot be used by those with mobility impairments (and often other disabilities as well though in different ways), and owners have fought in court before to not have to even follow ADA regulations.  When shelter systems are evaluated, it’s common for not a single shelter in an entire city to meet ADA regulations.  And then unsheltered disabled people are subjected to increased police harassment as well.

Inadequate SSI is part of this problem certainly, but it’s only one of the systemic issues causing high homelessness rates for disabled people.