1 in 4 people have a disability, yet for generations, disabled people have been explicitly left out or considered an afterthought in the US housing market. This has led to disabled people facing disproportionate barriers to accessing, affording, and securing housing. All of this is experienced most acutely by disabled people of color, people with extremely low and no income, and people who need supportive services in their homes. These barriers lead to people with disabilities experiencing the highest levels of housing discrimination, homelessness, housing instability, and rent burden. Despite this need, mainstream housing policy, development, and design often fail to include disabled people and the perspectives of people with disabilities on what an accessible and inclusive housing future looks like.

A critical step in creating a future where all disabled people live in housing that is affordable, accessible, and inclusive is to garner more political and social will amongst government and non-governmental decision-makers. This can only happen by disabled people strategically sharing their stories of this housing crisis and the necessary solutions. Therefore, an explicit investment must be made in disabled advocates uniting and sharing their housing stories for narrative and political change.