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Table 25. Disability, Employment, and Poverty accounting for 17 percent of the close to 9,000 Percentages, State and Counties of Hawaii, 2009 households on the public housing wait list. onolulu Hawaii W& Kauai Households with persons with disabilities on public housing wait lists may also be on the wait Total Disabled Population 87,950 22,004 13,186 7,295 130,435 list for Section 8 housing vouchers. About one- Type of Disability fourth of Hawaii residents with disabilities (21%) Sensory 17.5 21.9 13.4 17 17.6 receive Section 8 assistance. Nearly 3,000 of the Physical 34.7 39.9 31.8 29 34.6 over 17,000 families waiting for Section 8 rental Mental 19.8 27.8 15.4 17.1 20.5 assistance have members with disabilities (17%). Self-care 11.5 12.9 13.6 9.3 11.6 Go-outside-home 21.2 21.9 14.1 17.5 20.4 Employment/PovedyStatus Persons with Developmental Disabilities Employed 42.5 39.1 55 42.7 42.9 Below povedy level 14.7 21 9.7 18.5 15.5 The Department of Health, Developmental Sources: ACS 2009; Center on Disability Studies Annual Disabilities Division reported that 3,292 Hawaii Report 2009-2010. residents with developmental disabilities were being served.37 Nearly one-quarter of Hawaii residents with In 2008, there were 2,426 adults with disabilities (23%) lives below the poverty line, Developmental Disabilities/Mental Retardation compared to only ten percent of those without (DD/MR) living in various residential settings36. disabilities in the population. The median income Of that number, 2,230 lived with their family and for households with persons with disabilities 196 lived in settings other than with family. There households statewide was $59,100, 22 percent were 14 individuals who wanted to live lower than the median for households with no independently in their own home (with or without disability. The disparity varied by County. supports), but would require a rental subsidy to Incomes for workers without disabilities for the help pay for rent. These individuals lived with City & County of Honolulu were 72 percent higher their family, relatives, in an Adult Residential than the incomes of workers with disabilities. Care Home (ARCH) or Adult Foster Home (AFH), or were homeless, but remained in their current Housing Needs and Challenges living situation due to limited resources to assist them to live independently. All of these factors contribute to difficulties finding affordable housing for people with disabilities. Housing Needs and Challenges Hawaii households that include a member with a Although the process may be in place to address disability are almost evenly divided between the individual's choice of residential setting, homeowners and renters, 58 and 42 percent, limited resources are available to support their respectively. Housing units used by persons with choices, like initial deposits and monthly rent disabilities are most often single-family homes payments. Limited resources for Section 8 (72%) or apartments (13%). vouchers, low cost rentals, and rent subsidies, and the high cost of living in Hawaii make it Statewide, about 19 percent of households with challenging for individuals with DD/MR to obtain at least one person with a disability currently live housing and live independently. in public housing36. An additional 1,774 households with a member with a disability are on the wait list for public housing units, 37 City&County of Honolulu Consolidated Plan 2011-2015. 38 Report to the Twenty-Fifth Legislature State of Hawai i, 3s HHPS Housing Demand Survey 2011 2009. Hawaii Housing Planning Study,2011 Page 43 0 SMS, Inc. November,2011