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U. S. Fair Housing Amendments Act (FHAA) and Home Accessibility : Comparison of before and after the FHAA

U.S. Fair Housing Amendments Act와 접근 가능한 공동주택 디자인 : 법 시행 전·후 비교

Hyun Joo Kwon*
,
Eunju Hwang**
권현주 *
,
황은주 **
*Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Design, Purdue University
**Assistant Professor, Department of Apparel, Housing, and Resource Management, Virginia Tech
Corresponding AuthorHyun Joo Kwon, Department of Art and Design, Purdue University, 552 West Wood St. West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA. E-mail: kwon69@purdue.edu
25 October 2015. pp. 19-26
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Abstract

This study examined whether the Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988 (FHAA) in the US provides more home accessibility features and reduces the home accessibility problems of senior residents with physical disability. The 2011 American Housing Survey data with a sample of 2,326 senior residents age 55 and over with physical disability and living in multifamily housing built between 1970 and 2011 were analyzed. We compared senior residents living in multifamily before (1970-1990) and after (1991-2011) the FHAA. The results show that senior residents living in multifamily housing before the FHAA were at a greater disadvantage because they were more likely to live in older buildings located in urban areas, yet paid lower rent and received government subsidies. This study confirmed that the FHAA enabled residents of multifamily housing to have more home accessibility features. However, there was no significant difference in perceived home accessibility problems between the two groups, indicating that senior residents in multifamily housing have experienced home accessibility problems both before and after the FHAA. This study has important implications for housing policy makers to consider home accessibility features for multifamily housing buildings before the FHAA, and to revisit if the FHAA sufficiently compensates physical disability of senior resident living in multifamily housing after the FHAA.

Keywords
U.S. Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988
Multifamily Housing
Home Accessibility
Senior Residents
Physical Disability
키워드
공동주택
접근 가능한 디자인
노인거주자
지체장애
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  • Publisher :The Korean Housing Association
  • Publisher(Ko) :한국주거학회
  • Journal Title :Journal of the Korean Housing Association
  • Journal Title(Ko) :한국주거학회논문집
  • Volume : 26
  • No :5
  • Pages :19-26
  • Received Date : 2015-04-12
  • Revised Date : 2015-07-16
  • Accepted Date : 2015-07-31
  • DOI :https://doi.org/10.6107/JKHA.2015.26.5.019
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