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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…

April 6, 2020

Over 7.7 Million Lowest-Income Households are Severely Housing Cost-Burdened, Spending More Than Half of Their Incomes on Housing

Source: NLIHC’s The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes; NLIHC tabulations of 2018 ACS PUMS data.

March 30, 2020

Half of Households with Incomes Below Poverty Level Are Not Confident They Could Handle $400 Expense

Source: Urban Institute Well-Being and Basic Needs Survey, December 2017

March 23, 2020

Few Low-Wage Employees Have Flexible/Work-from-Home Workplace Policies where They Work

Source: BLS, National Compensation Survey, March 2019. Surveyed occupations classified into wage categories based on average wage for occupation. Survey asked about flexible workplace benefits. Includes private industry and state and local government employees.

March 16, 2020

The Gap: Just 36 Affordable and Available Homes for Every 100 Extremely Low-Income U.S. Households

Source: NLIHC’s The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes, 2020. NLIHC tabulations of 2018 ACS PUMS data.

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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

Over 7.7 Million Lowest-Income Households are Severely Housing Cost-Burdened, Spending More Than Half of Their Incomes on Housing

Half of Households with Incomes Below Poverty Level Are Not Confident They Could Handle $400 Expense

Few Low-Wage Employees Have Flexible/Work-from-Home Workplace Policies where They Work

The Gap: Just 36 Affordable and Available Homes for Every 100 Extremely Low-Income U.S. Households