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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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Extremely Low-Income Renters in Puerto Rico Are More Likely to be Seniors, Householders with Disabilities, Householders in School, or Single Adult Caregivers than Other Renters

Source: 2023 PRCS PUMS Note: Mutually exclusive categories are applied in the following order: senior, disabled, in the labor force, enrolled in school, single-adult caregiver…

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In Puerto Rico, Dominicans are More Likely than Other Ethnic Groups to be Extremely Low-Income Renters

Source: 2023 PRCS PUMS.

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HUD-Assisted Rental Homes Account for a Lower Share of the Rental Stock in Western States

Source: American Community Survey (ACS) 2024 1-Year, and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Picture of Subsidized Households 2024 data.

November 3, 2025

Nearly Half of All Federally Assisted Affordable Homes Exposed to Seven or More Extreme Heat Events are Located in the Southeast and Northeast Regions

Note: Data includes extreme heat alerts between May 1 and October 31 from the National Weather Service. Federally assisted affordable housing includes: public housing, project-based subsidized housing, and Low-Income Housing Tax Credit housing. Source: Declet-Barreto, J…

October 27, 2025

Children Accounted for Nearly 40% of the 7.6 Million Individuals Evicted From 2007 to 2016

Source: Graetz, N., Gershenson, C., Hepburn, P., Porter, S. R., Sandler, D. H., & Desmond, M. (2023). A comprehensive demographic profile of the US evicted population. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(41). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2305860120Available at: http…

October 20, 2025

Older Adults Account for Nearly One-Fifth of the Nation’s Population Experiencing Homelessness

Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (2024), AHAR Part 1: Point-in-Time Estimates of Homelessness in the U.S.

October 14, 2025

Single-Parent Female Renter—Particularly Black, Latina, and Indigenous Women—are More Likely than Single-Parent Male Renters to Have Extremely Low Incomes

Note: AANHPI stands for women who identified as Asian American, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander. Indigenous stands for women who identified as American Indian or Alaskan Native. A child was defined as being under the age of 18. Source: T. Grossman, S. Hassmer,…

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Facts of the Week

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

Extremely Low-Income Renters in Puerto Rico Are More Likely to be Seniors, Householders with Disabilities, Householders in School, or Single Adult Caregivers than Other Renters

In Puerto Rico, Dominicans are More Likely than Other Ethnic Groups to be Extremely Low-Income Renters

HUD-Assisted Rental Homes Account for a Lower Share of the Rental Stock in Western States

Nearly Half of All Federally Assisted Affordable Homes Exposed to Seven or More Extreme Heat Events are Located in the Southeast and Northeast Regions

Children Accounted for Nearly 40% of the 7.6 Million Individuals Evicted From 2007 to 2016

Older Adults Account for Nearly One-Fifth of the Nation’s Population Experiencing Homelessness

Single-Parent Female Renter—Particularly Black, Latina, and Indigenous Women—are More Likely than Single-Parent Male Renters to Have Extremely Low Incomes