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.
• The fair market rent for a two-bedroom apartment in central Maryland is $1,037. That means, earning minimum wage, a person has to work 3.0 full-time jobs to afford the apartment.
  Source: Maryland Judiciary, National Low Income Housing Coalition

SOLUTIONS

• 1,548 low-income or homeless individuals and families obtained or remained in safe and stable housing for at least one year.
• 2,804 people received services like job training and credit repair to help them find permanent housing.
• 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.