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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

February 27, 2023

Adults with HUD Assistance Were More Likely to Have Long COVID Than Adults without HUD Assistance

Sources: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, “Self-Reported Long COVID-19 among HUD-Assisted Adults: Preliminary Findings from the Household Pulse Survey (HPS) Linked with HUD Administrative Data,” February 2023, https://tinyurl.com/4h567nap; NLIHC tabulations of Household Pulse…

February 21, 2023

Major Cities and Predominantly Urban CoCs Faced Largest Increases in Unsheltered Homelessness and Chronic Homelessness between 2020 and 2022

Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, "The 2022 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report Part 1: Point-In-Time Estimates of Homelessness," December 2022, bit.ly/3WNSERq

February 13, 2023

Older Black Adults Disproportionately Exit Homelessness to Incarceration, While Older White Adults Disproportionately Receive Permanent Supportive Housing

Source: National Alliance to End Homelessness. (2023). Connecting Older Adults to Housing: Examining Disparities. Retrieved from https://endhomelessness.org/resource/connecting-older-adults-to-housing-examining-disparities/

February 6, 2023

Budget Control Act Severely Constrained Annual HUD Appropriations

Note: Adjusted for inflation. Key HUD programs include Tenant-Based Rental Assistance, Project-Based Rental Assistance, Public Housing Capital and Operating Funds, CDBG, HOME, Section 202, and Section 811. A significant share of the FY23 increase was the result of earmarks for CDBG, which are…

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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

Adults with HUD Assistance Were More Likely to Have Long COVID Than Adults without HUD Assistance

Major Cities and Predominantly Urban CoCs Faced Largest Increases in Unsheltered Homelessness and Chronic Homelessness between 2020 and 2022

Older Black Adults Disproportionately Exit Homelessness to Incarceration, While Older White Adults Disproportionately Receive Permanent Supportive Housing

Budget Control Act Severely Constrained Annual HUD Appropriations