drug related felony. Subsequently individuals who are labeled as a felon are unable to received adequate housing assistance when needed. Segall (2013) explains another limitation “ex-offenders are disqualified from applying to more than eight hundred discrete occupations by laws regulating public-employment hiring or licensing...federal, state, and municipal laws that exclude ex-felons from regulated occupations, either directly or via "good moral character" requirements or their equivalents.”(Segall, 2013, p.172).
