The Continuing Need for Gender, Racial, and Disability Justice in the R

Women of color disproportionately make up the low-paid workforce, representing nearly two-thirds (64.1%) of the workforce in the 40 lowest paying jobs but less than half of the workforce overall.2 Additionally, the Over four in 10 Black, non-Hispanic women, Native racist and sexist wage gap robs women of women, Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and color of tens of thousands of dollars each year. [...] The gender inequities in our employment systems, the Additionally, the gap in the supply of housing affordable lack of a thriving wage, and the shortage of homes and available to families with the lowest incomes has affordable to families with the lowest incomes mean persisted for decades, and there is not a single state that rent takes up a huge chunk of women’s budgets. [...] The share of women behind on their rent and the disparities between women of color and white, non-Hispanic men and women varied greatly by state. [...] • In nine states and the District of Columbia (out of 27 states and the District of Columbia for which complete data is available), a greater share of LGBT people compared to non-LGBT people were behind on their rent. [...] landlords.58 Legal aid organizations that provide legal assistance to people with low-income are The evidence shows that women of color, LGBTQIA+ often unable to help due to the large demand and people, and disabled women struggle to afford the small number of staff.59 When tenants have rent because of decades, if not centuries, of access to counsel, their odds of eviction are greatly discriminato.