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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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Renters with Extremely Low Incomes are Much More Likely than Other Renters to be Severely Housing Cost-Burdened

Source: 2024 ACS PUMS.

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Extremely Low-Income Renters are More Likely to be Seniors, Householders with Disabilities, Households in School, or Single Adult Caregivers

Source: The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes, NLIHC 2026. https://nlihc.org/gap  Note: Mutually exclusive categories applied in the following order: senior, disabled, in…

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Extremely Low-Income Renters Represent a Quarter of All Renters, But Are More Than Two Thirds of All Renters with Severe Housing Cost Burdens

Source: The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes, NLIHC 2026. https://nlihc.org/gap

April 6, 2026

Renters with Extremely Low Incomes are Much More Likely than Other Renters to be Severely Housing Cost-Burdened

Source: 2024 ACS PUMS.

March 30, 2026

Extremely Low-Income Renters are More Likely to be Seniors, Householders with Disabilities, Households in School, or Single Adult Caregivers

Source: The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes, NLIHC 2026. https://nlihc.org/gap  Note: Mutually exclusive categories applied in the following order: senior, disabled, in labor force, enrolled in school, single adult caregiver of a child under 7 or of a household member with…

March 23, 2026

Extremely Low-Income Renters Represent a Quarter of All Renters, But Are More Than Two Thirds of All Renters with Severe Housing Cost Burdens

Source: The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes, NLIHC 2026. https://nlihc.org/gap

March 9, 2026

No State has an Adequate Supply of Affordable and Available Rental Homes for the Lowest-Income Renters

Source: The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes, NLIHC 2026. https://nlihc.org/gap

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Facts of the Week

Metros with Greater Shares of HUD-Assisted Housing Have Lower Rates of Severe Housing Cost Burdens

Renters with Extremely Low Incomes are Much More Likely than Other Renters to be Severely Housing Cost-Burdened

Extremely Low-Income Renters are More Likely to be Seniors, Householders with Disabilities, Households in School, or Single Adult Caregivers

Extremely Low-Income Renters Represent a Quarter of All Renters, But Are More Than Two Thirds of All Renters with Severe Housing Cost Burdens

Renters with Extremely Low Incomes are Much More Likely than Other Renters to be Severely Housing Cost-Burdened

Extremely Low-Income Renters are More Likely to be Seniors, Householders with Disabilities, Households in School, or Single Adult Caregivers

Extremely Low-Income Renters Represent a Quarter of All Renters, But Are More Than Two Thirds of All Renters with Severe Housing Cost Burdens

No State has an Adequate Supply of Affordable and Available Rental Homes for the Lowest-Income Renters