Income

We provide support for resources that help people survive and we work to ensure families have safe, affordable housing and the means to keep it.

PROBLEMS

• More than 14,000 evictions took place in central Maryland in 2008.
• Maryland is the 7th most expensive jurisdiction in the country for rental housing.
• The fair market rent for a two-bedroom apartment in central Maryland is $1,037. That means, the hourly wage necessary to afford a 2-bedroom apartment at Fair Market Rent in central Maryland is $19.94, which is a 56 percent increase since 2000.
  Source: Maryland Judiciary, National Low Income Housing Coalition

SOLUTIONS

• 627 homeless individuals and families obtained or remained in safe, stable housing for at least one year.
• 2,767 low-income and homeless individuals received services that remove major barriers to permanent housing, like job skills, credit repair, mental health services and more.
• To combat homelessness, United Way sits on local homelessness planning committees, guiding plans to make homelessness rare and brief.
• We worked with the Maryland Alliance for the Poor, a collaboration of agencies representing needs of the poor, building the case for legislation to study poverty issues and make recommendations in this difficult climate.

The solution numbers are aggregated from four quarters. There are several instances where the numbers may be duplicated.