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�, <br />City of Cuyahoga Fails, Ohio 10 <br />88 0 88 Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice <br />Family status within the City of Cuyahoga Falls is shown in Table 9.8 This table indicates <br />family households type. It shows that within the City of Cuyahoga Falls that 48.3% consist <br />of married couples without children under the age of eighteen (18) and that 38.5% of these <br />have children under the age of eighteen (18). It also indicates that there are 10.1 % Female <br />head of households and 5.7% are Female head of households with children under the age <br />of eighteen (18). 9 <br />Table 9: Household Type within the City of Cuyahoga Falls, 2000 <br />The importance of this data is threefold - 1, Female head of households with children are <br />the fastest growing poverty population; 2, the impact that this population can have on the <br />need for affordable housing and; 3, single head of households with children tend to face <br />a higher percentage of housing discrimination complaints. <br />According to the Interagency Council on the Homeless, approximately 20 -25% of the <br />homeless are families with children, Single parents, usually female, head most homeless <br />families.70 <br />Also, data from the Center on Urban Poverty and Social Change indicates that between <br />1989 (1990 reported) and 1999 (2000 reported) there has been a 12.3% decrease in <br />poverty among families with a female -head, no husband present and related children. <br />However, Harvard Professor Richard B. Freeman contends that "the impact of the recent <br />upswing in unemployment is cause for concern," He states that "the loss of full <br />employment —a return of unemployment to the mid- 1990's national rate of 6 %..,will increase <br />poverty substantively. Despite the welcome gains made by female- headed families with <br />° The table does not include information for non - family households which include persons who <br />live alone; don't live alone [but not married]; non - relatives that live together and persons that <br />live in institutions or other group quarters <br />'US Census Bureau, 2000 (SF1) Table P19 by Census Tract <br />0 City of Cuyahoga Falls Consolidated Plan, 2004 -2008, p IX:34 <br />House- <br />Family <br />Non- <br />Married <br />Married <br />Female <br />Female <br />holds <br />House- <br />Family <br />Couple <br />With <br />Headed <br />With <br />holds <br />House- <br />Family <br />I CH <18 <br />House - <br />!, CH <18 <br />hold <br />hold <br />City of <br />Cuyahoga <br />y <br />21,655. <br />13,307 <br />8,348 <br />10,467 <br />4,271 <br />I 2,187 <br />1,243 <br />Falls <br />I <br />% of Total <br />100% <br />61.5% <br />38.5% <br />483% <br />i 197% <br />I 10 1% <br />57% <br />Households <br />Source: U.S Census <br />Bureau, <br />2000 Table <br />DP -1 Profile <br />of General Demographic <br />Characteristics(SF2' <br />The importance of this data is threefold - 1, Female head of households with children are <br />the fastest growing poverty population; 2, the impact that this population can have on the <br />need for affordable housing and; 3, single head of households with children tend to face <br />a higher percentage of housing discrimination complaints. <br />According to the Interagency Council on the Homeless, approximately 20 -25% of the <br />homeless are families with children, Single parents, usually female, head most homeless <br />families.70 <br />Also, data from the Center on Urban Poverty and Social Change indicates that between <br />1989 (1990 reported) and 1999 (2000 reported) there has been a 12.3% decrease in <br />poverty among families with a female -head, no husband present and related children. <br />However, Harvard Professor Richard B. Freeman contends that "the impact of the recent <br />upswing in unemployment is cause for concern," He states that "the loss of full <br />employment —a return of unemployment to the mid- 1990's national rate of 6 %..,will increase <br />poverty substantively. Despite the welcome gains made by female- headed families with <br />° The table does not include information for non - family households which include persons who <br />live alone; don't live alone [but not married]; non - relatives that live together and persons that <br />live in institutions or other group quarters <br />'US Census Bureau, 2000 (SF1) Table P19 by Census Tract <br />0 City of Cuyahoga Falls Consolidated Plan, 2004 -2008, p IX:34 <br />
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