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