{"id":32,"date":"2012-02-23T17:58:31","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T17:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/?p=32"},"modified":"2013-04-22T15:06:20","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T15:06:20","slug":"disparity-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"Disparity at home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to housing, we&#8217;ve got it all in Connecticut: mansions, homeless shelters, and everything in between. Our recent look at disparity in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wshu.org\/news\/fcfocus.php\">Fairfield County Focus<\/a> also took a look at what the issue means for where we live. We talked with David Fink of the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pschousing.org\/\"> Partnership for Strong Communities<\/a>, which is a statewide housing policy organization. Fink says the wealth of Fairfield County drives up the cost of living for those on the lower end of the economic spectrum.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s our conversation with Fink:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/fcf_fink.mp3\">fcf_fink<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fink says Stamford has the highest home rental costs in the entire country. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pschousing.org\/files\/PSC_HsgInCT2011_10-11-11.pdf\">Here&#8217;s a link<\/a> to the Partnership&#8217;s latest report on housing affordability in the state. It says more than half of renters in the state pay more than 30 percent of their income on housing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to housing, we&#8217;ve got it all in Connecticut: mansions, homeless shelters, and everything in between. Our recent look at disparity in Fairfield County Focus also took a look at what the issue means for where we live. We talked with David Fink of the Partnership for Strong Communities, which is a statewide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-housing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}