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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

January 30, 2023

Fact of the Week: Renters in Neighborhoods of Color More Likely to Have Rental Arrears and Apply for and Receive ERA Than Applicants in Mostly White Neighborhoods

January 23, 2023

Homeless Students Experience Negative Educational Outcomes

Source: Lowell, W., Hanratty, M. (2023). Who counts? Educational disadvantage among children identified as homeless and implications for the systems that serve them. Retrieved from https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.1086/722003.

January 17, 2023

Black, Non-Latino and Latino Households More Likely to be Displaced due to a Disaster

Source: NLIHC tabulations of Household Pulse Survey Week 52: December 9-19, 2022, U.S. Census Bureau

January 9, 2023

Predominantly Rural and Suburban Continuums of Care Faced Largest Increases in Sheltered People Experiencing Chronic Homelessness between 2021 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

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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

Fact of the Week: Renters in Neighborhoods of Color More Likely to Have Rental Arrears and Apply for and Receive ERA Than Applicants in Mostly White Neighborhoods

Homeless Students Experience Negative Educational Outcomes

Black, Non-Latino and Latino Households More Likely to be Displaced due to a Disaster

Predominantly Rural and Suburban Continuums of Care Faced Largest Increases in Sheltered People Experiencing Chronic Homelessness between 2021 and 2022