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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…

December 22, 2020

Share of Renters Reporting Rent Arrears Up Significantly since Summer

Source: US Census Bureau, Household Pulse Survey, Week 13 (August 19-31) through Week 20 (November 25-December 7).

December 14, 2020

Fewer than 1 in 10 Occupied Rental Homes are Affordable to Households Earning Less than $20,000

Source: Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year 2015-2019.

December 7, 2020

End of State Eviction Moratoriums Led to Hundreds of Thousands of Excess COVID Cases

Source: Leifheit et al., “Expiring Eviction Moratoriums and COVID-19 Incidence and Mortality, 2020.

November 23, 2020

Renters in Smaller Properties More Likely to Be Behind on Rent and to Have Lost Income in 2020

Source: Joint Center for Housing Studies, The State of the Nation’s Housing 2020, & U.S. Census Bureau, Household Pulse Survey, Week 17.

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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

Share of Renters Reporting Rent Arrears Up Significantly since Summer

Fewer than 1 in 10 Occupied Rental Homes are Affordable to Households Earning Less than $20,000

End of State Eviction Moratoriums Led to Hundreds of Thousands of Excess COVID Cases

Renters in Smaller Properties More Likely to Be Behind on Rent and to Have Lost Income in 2020