About the Self Storage Association (SSA): The SSA, founded in 1975 and incorporated in the State of Virginia as a (501-c-6) not-for-profit corporation, is the official voice of the $35+ billion (revenues) self storage industry that currently numbers more than 57,000 self storage facilities nationwide. The SSA is affiliated with more than forty (40) state and regional associations in the U.S. and several international associations representing Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Japan, Latin America and South America. SSA members range from individual facility owner-operators ad multiple-facility companies, to vendors, large publicly traded firms and Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs).