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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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Nearly Half of Renters Applying for FEMA’s Individuals and Households Program after Helene Are Lower-Income

Note: IHP = Individuals and Households ProgramSource: FEMA (2024). OpenFEMA: Individuals and Households Program - Valid Registrations - v1. Retrieved November 13, 2024, from: https://www.fema.gov/api…

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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…

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…

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

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Facts of the Week

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

Nearly Half of Renters Applying for FEMA’s Individuals and Households Program after Helene Are Lower-Income

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

Budget Control Act Severely Constrained Annual HUD Appropriations

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