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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

April 3, 2023

Metro Areas with a Greater Share of Rental Housing with HUD Assistance Have a Lower Prevalence of Severe Cost Burdens

March 20, 2023

Emergency Housing Voucher Lease-Up Rates Vary across Public Housing Authorities

Source: Economy, C., Finnigan, R., Espinoza, M., “Using Emergency Housing Vouchers to Address Homelessness,” 2023, https://bit.ly/3mV0KdN

March 13, 2023

Low-Income Renters Eligible for HUD Assistance More Likely to Live in Inadequate-Quality Housing

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, “2021 American Housing Survey,”

March 6, 2023

Most Municipalities Have No LIHTC Housing

Source: Schwartz, A., McClure, K. (2023). The geography of absence: Cities, towns, and suburbs with no LIHTC housing. Housing Policy Debate. Retrieved from https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10511482.2023.2171740.

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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

Metro Areas with a Greater Share of Rental Housing with HUD Assistance Have a Lower Prevalence of Severe Cost Burdens

Emergency Housing Voucher Lease-Up Rates Vary across Public Housing Authorities

Low-Income Renters Eligible for HUD Assistance More Likely to Live in Inadequate-Quality Housing

Most Municipalities Have No LIHTC Housing