Section 5.9.1

5.9.1 - Housing Status

Table 5.9.1 shows the housing status of the clients. It shows whether they have a place to live, what kind of housing they have, whether they own or rent a place, and their other housing-related experiences.

Table 5.9.1

Housing Status

	Adult Clients at a Kitchen	Adult Clients at a Shelter	Adult Clients Who Pick Up Food at a Pantry	Adult Clients at All Program Sites
The kind of place you live now?
Clients with a Place to Live
House	39.1%	24.5%	6.0%	35.5%
Mobile home/trailer	9.6%	2.9%	2.4%	8.4%
Apartment	42.9%	36.1%	11.9%	40.5%
Room	3.9%	8.3%	2.9%	4.5%
Live with family, friends	1.6%	1.9%	1.1%	1.6%
SUBTOTAL	97.2%	73.7%	24.3%	90.4%
Clients Without a Place to Live
Homeless, living in shelter or mission	1.5%	18.2%	72.1%	7.3%
Homeless, living on the street	0.9%	6.7%	2.4%	1.7%
Car, van, or recreational vehicle	0.4%	1.3%	1.2%	0.5%
Abandoned building	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
SUBTOTAL	2.8%	26.3%	75.7%	9.6%
TOTAL	100%	100%	100%	100%
SAMPLE SIZE (N)	24,436	5,441	2,882	32,759

Among clients who have a place to live
Own the place you live	24.5%	16.8%	9.3%	23.4%
Rent your place	68.7%	73.8%	61.1%	69.1%
Live free with someone else	5.0%	7.3%	22.6%	5.5%
Other ¹	1.8%	2.1%	7.1%	1.9%
TOTAL	100%	100%	100%	100%

Clients late paying the last month's rent or mortgage	19.5%	17.6%	5.4%	19.1%
Clients whose households receive Section 8 or Public Housing Assistance	19.6%	19.0%	11.0%	19.5%
SAMPLE SIZE (N) - Clients with a place to live	23,648	3,942	567	28,157

Source
This table was constructed based on usable responses to Questions 16, 17, 18, and 81 of the client survey.

Notes
The percentages presented in this table are based only on usable responses, excluding missing, don't know, and refusal responses. All usable responses were weighted as described in Chapter 3 and in the Technical Appendix volume to represent all emergency food clients of the A2H network. The sample sizes (N) also include missing data.

For the kind of place currently living, missing, don't know, and refusal responses combined are 0.9% for pantry clients, 0.5% for kitchen clients, 1.7% for shelter clients, and 0.9% for all clients.

For home ownership, missing, don't know, and refusal responses combined are 1.1% for pantry clients, 0.7% for kitchen clients, 1.1% for shelter clients, and 1.0% for all clients.

For paying rent or mortgage late last month, missing, don't know, and refusal responses combined are 5.2% for pantry clients, 6.5% for kitchen clients, 9.5% for shelter clients, and 5.4% for all clients.

For clients receiving Section 8, missing, don't know, and refusal responses combined are 2.5% for pantry clients, 1.7% for kitchen clients, 2.1% for shelter clients, and 2.4% for all clients.

1 This includes shelters and halfway houses.