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Metros with Greater Shares of HUD-Assisted Housing Have Lower Rates of Severe Housing Cost Burdens

Source: NLIHC tabulations of 2020 5-Year ACS PUMS and HUD Picture of Subsidized Households (POSH) data.

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Children Accounted for Nearly 40% of the 7.6 Million Individuals Evicted From 2007 to 2016

Source: Graetz, N., Gershenson, C., Hepburn, P., Porter, S. R., Sandler, D. H., & Desmond, M. (2023). A comprehensive demographic profile of the US evicted population. Proceedings of the National…

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Older Adults Account for Nearly One-Fifth of the Nation’s Population Experiencing Homelessness

Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (2024), AHAR Part 1: Point-in-Time Estimates of Homelessness in the U.S.

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Single-Parent Female Renter—Particularly Black, Latina, and Indigenous Women—are More Likely than Single-Parent Male Renters to Have Extremely Low Incomes

Note: AANHPI stands for women who identified as Asian American, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander. Indigenous stands for women who identified as American Indian…

October 27, 2025

Children Accounted for Nearly 40% of the 7.6 Million Individuals Evicted From 2007 to 2016

Source: Graetz, N., Gershenson, C., Hepburn, P., Porter, S. R., Sandler, D. H., & Desmond, M. (2023). A comprehensive demographic profile of the US evicted population. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(41). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2305860120Available at: http…

October 20, 2025

Older Adults Account for Nearly One-Fifth of the Nation’s Population Experiencing Homelessness

Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (2024), AHAR Part 1: Point-in-Time Estimates of Homelessness in the U.S.

October 14, 2025

Single-Parent Female Renter—Particularly Black, Latina, and Indigenous Women—are More Likely than Single-Parent Male Renters to Have Extremely Low Incomes

Note: AANHPI stands for women who identified as Asian American, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander. Indigenous stands for women who identified as American Indian or Alaskan Native. A child was defined as being under the age of 18. Source: T. Grossman…

October 6, 2025

Affordable and Available Rental Homes per 100 extremely Low-Income Renter Households

Source: NLIHC Tabulations, American Community Survey (ACS) 2023 1-Year, Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS).

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Facts of the Week

Metros with Greater Shares of HUD-Assisted Housing Have Lower Rates of Severe Housing Cost Burdens

Children Accounted for Nearly 40% of the 7.6 Million Individuals Evicted From 2007 to 2016

Older Adults Account for Nearly One-Fifth of the Nation’s Population Experiencing Homelessness

Single-Parent Female Renter—Particularly Black, Latina, and Indigenous Women—are More Likely than Single-Parent Male Renters to Have Extremely Low Incomes

Children Accounted for Nearly 40% of the 7.6 Million Individuals Evicted From 2007 to 2016

Older Adults Account for Nearly One-Fifth of the Nation’s Population Experiencing Homelessness

Single-Parent Female Renter—Particularly Black, Latina, and Indigenous Women—are More Likely than Single-Parent Male Renters to Have Extremely Low Incomes

Affordable and Available Rental Homes per 100 extremely Low-Income Renter Households