Housing Instability & Homelessness

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HUD Annual Homeless Assessment Shows Increase in Homelessness

HUD released The 2017 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress last week. The assessment reveals that 553,742 people were homeless in the United States on a single night in January 2017, a 1% increase from 2016. Some states and municipalities saw dramatic increases in homelessness over…

One Out of Four Low Income Renters Cannot Pay the Rent

A report by Chris Salviati of Apartment List, Rental Insecurity: The Threat of Evictions to America’s Renters, indicates that more than one out of four low income renters with annual incomes below $30,000 were unable to pay their full rent in at least one of the past three months. The report…