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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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Approximately Half of Households with Tenant-Based Vouchers Live in High-Poverty Areas

Note: High-poverty census tracts are generally defined as those with poverty rates higher than 20%.Source: Hawke, S. (2024, October 15). Tracking Investment: Trends in Housing Vouchers and…

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Housing Cost Burden among Veteran Renters Drastically Increased from 1976 to 2021

Source: Hess, C., Horan, K., Collette, T., Sanchez Cardona, I., Channer, B., & Moore, B. (2024). Rent Burden and Demographic Change Among Veterans: A Research Brief. Social Currents. Available at…

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Billion Dollar Disasters Are On the Rise

Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters (2024). https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/, DOI: 10.25921/stkw-7w73

October 16, 2023

Black Adults with Children Experience Highest Eviction Filing Rates

Source: The Eviction Lab. (2023). Who is evicted in America. Princeton, NJ: Author. Retrieved from https://evictionlab.org/who-is-evicted-in-america/.

October 10, 2023

Incorrect Eviction Information Acts as Significant Barrier to Renting

Note: Non-random sample of 253 respondents, 143 of wom responded to the question about eviction records. National Consumer Law Center. (2023). Digital denials: How abuse, bias, and lack of transparency in tenant screening harm renters. https://bit.ly/3ZGrazn

October 2, 2023

Extremely Low-Income Renters Make Up Majority of Severely Cost-Burdened Renters

Source: NLIHC tabulations of 2021 ACS PUMS data

September 25, 2023

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Facts of the Week

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

Approximately Half of Households with Tenant-Based Vouchers Live in High-Poverty Areas

Housing Cost Burden among Veteran Renters Drastically Increased from 1976 to 2021

Billion Dollar Disasters Are On the Rise

Black Adults with Children Experience Highest Eviction Filing Rates

Incorrect Eviction Information Acts as Significant Barrier to Renting

Extremely Low-Income Renters Make Up Majority of Severely Cost-Burdened Renters

Fact of the Week: Measures of Housing Stability by Status of Emergency Rental Assistance