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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 31, 2022

Greater Share of Renters Were Behind on Rent and Experiencing Deeper Rental Arrears in 2021 Compared to 2017

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, “2021 American Housing Survey,” https://bit.ly/3rQ1QGZ Note: The survey asks respondents, “For how many of the last 3 months [were you] unable to pay all or part of the rent?” As a result, some renters may be more than three months behind but this data is not…

October 24, 2022

Twenty Percent of Black Households and 15% of Latino Households Are Extremely Low-Income Renters, Compared to 6% of White Households

Source: 2020, 5-yr ACS PUMS.

October 17, 2022

Fact of the Week: Renters More Likely Than Owners to Be Forced to Move or to Move to Reduce Housing Costs

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, “2021 American Housing Survey,” https://bit.ly/3rQ1QGZ

October 3, 2022

Sheltered Homelessness Decreased across Household Types in 2020, as Shelters Closed and Emergency Assistance Was Made Available

Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, “The 2019-2020 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress Part 2: Estimates of Homelessness in the United States,” 2022, https://bit.ly/3UUNwum

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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

Greater Share of Renters Were Behind on Rent and Experiencing Deeper Rental Arrears in 2021 Compared to 2017

Twenty Percent of Black Households and 15% of Latino Households Are Extremely Low-Income Renters, Compared to 6% of White Households

Fact of the Week: Renters More Likely Than Owners to Be Forced to Move or to Move to Reduce Housing Costs

Sheltered Homelessness Decreased across Household Types in 2020, as Shelters Closed and Emergency Assistance Was Made Available