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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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The Lowest-Income Renters Struggle the Most with Housing Cost Burdens

Source: 2022 ACS PUMS.

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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…

June 27, 2022

Significant Increase in High-Income Renter Households May Further Limit Affordable Options for Low-Income Renters

Source: Joint Center for Housing Studies, "The State of the Nation's Housing 2022," 2022, https://bit.ly/3zVCexL.

June 21, 2022

Emergency Rental Assistance Addresses Renters’ Financial, Mental Health, & Food Security Needs

Source: Airgood-Obrycki, W. (2022.) The Short-Term Benefits of Emergency Rental Assistance. Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. https://tinyurl.com/44vxudny

June 13, 2022

Preventing Homelessness is Most Commonly Cited Goal among Emergency Rental Assistance Programs

Note: Emergency rental assistance program administrators could identify more than one goal. Source: Aiken, C., Gould Ellen, I., Harner, I., Haupert, T., Reina, V., Yae, R. (2022). Can Emergency Rental Assistance Be Designed to Prevent Homelessness? Learning from Emergency Rental Assistance…

June 6, 2022

States Received Disproportionate Emergency Rental Assistance Allocations for Meeting the Needs of their Housing Cost-Burdened Households

Source: NLIHC, “Balancing Act: An Analysis of Remaining Emergency Rental Assistance Funds, Reallocation, and Outstanding Need,” https://bit.ly/392KoJF

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Facts of the Week

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

The Lowest-Income Renters Struggle the Most with 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

Significant Increase in High-Income Renter Households May Further Limit Affordable Options for Low-Income Renters

Emergency Rental Assistance Addresses Renters’ Financial, Mental Health, & Food Security Needs

Preventing Homelessness is Most Commonly Cited Goal among Emergency Rental Assistance Programs

States Received Disproportionate Emergency Rental Assistance Allocations for Meeting the Needs of their Housing Cost-Burdened Households