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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…

September 21, 2020

Housing Assistance Lifted 2.6 Million People Out of Poverty in 2019

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, “The Supplemental Poverty Measure: 2019.”

September 14, 2020

Renters of Color More Likely than White Renters to be Behind on Rent in August

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Housing Pulse Survey, Phase 2, August 19-31.

September 8, 2020

Plurality of Renters Reporting Housing Insecurity Earn Less than $25,000 a Year

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Housing Pulse Survey, July 16-21.

August 31, 2020

In Gulf Coast Metro Areas, 3 in 10 Extremely Low-Income Renters Lack Access to a Vehicle for Evacuation

Source: American Community Survey PUMS, 2018.

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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

Housing Assistance Lifted 2.6 Million People Out of Poverty in 2019

Renters of Color More Likely than White Renters to be Behind on Rent in August

Plurality of Renters Reporting Housing Insecurity Earn Less than $25,000 a Year

In Gulf Coast Metro Areas, 3 in 10 Extremely Low-Income Renters Lack Access to a Vehicle for Evacuation