More than one quarter (27%) of survey respondents with medical debt said they had housing problems that resulted from the debt.
The most common problems were;
- inability to qualify for a mortgage (11%)
- inability to pay rent or mortgage(10%)
- being turned down from renting a home (7%)
- being forced to move to less expensive housing (5%)
- A small number of respondents said that they were evicted (2%) and/or were now homeless (2%) because of medical debt
Among those with debt, those who were not insured were more likely to say that the debt led to a housing problem. But a significant number—about one in five—of those who had been insured experienced housing problems as well.
Source: The Access Project. Home Sick: How Medical Debt Undermines Housing Security.
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