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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…

May 29, 2018

Fact of the Week: Blacks and Hispanics at all Education Levels Disproportionately Unable to Pay Monthly Bills

Source: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. (2018). Report on the economic well-being of U.S. households in 2017. Washington, DC: Author.

May 21, 2018

Fact of the Week: Non-Elderly HUD-Assisted Households Get Off Assistance after 4-5 Years on Average

Source: McClure, K. (2017) Length of stay in assisted housing. Washington, DC: HUD

May 14, 2018

Fact of the Week: Lowest Income Renter Households are Disproportionately Seniors and People with Disabilities

Source: NLIHC tabulations of 2016 ACS PUMS data presented in The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes.

May 7, 2018

Fact of the Week: Eight Out of Every Ten HUD-Assisted Households Have Annual Incomes Below $20,000

Source: HUD Picture of Subsidized Households, 2017

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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

Fact of the Week: Blacks and Hispanics at all Education Levels Disproportionately Unable to Pay Monthly Bills

Fact of the Week: Non-Elderly HUD-Assisted Households Get Off Assistance after 4-5 Years on Average

Fact of the Week: Lowest Income Renter Households are Disproportionately Seniors and People with Disabilities

Fact of the Week: Eight Out of Every Ten HUD-Assisted Households Have Annual Incomes Below $20,000