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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 Federal Government Pays Over Three Times More in Housing Supports for Homeowners than for Low-Income Renters

Note: SLT = State and local tax deduction on owner-occupied homes. PH = Public Housing. LIHTC = Low-Income Housing Tax Credit. Other = National Housing Trust Fund,…

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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…

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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…

August 22, 2016

Fact of the Week: Projected Mortgage Interest Deduction (MID) Tax Expenditure vs. HUD Budget (2015-2021)

Note: Not in constant dollars. Sources: MID projections from Table 14-2B in OMB's Analytical Perspectives (2015). HUD budget authority and budget outlay data from OMB FY17 historical tables 5.2 and 4.1, respectively.

August 15, 2016

Fact of the Week: Median Net Worth of Households by Race/Ethnicity (1983-2013)

Source: Wolff, E. (2014). Household wealth trends in the United States, 1962-2013: What happened over the Great Recession? Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research. Retrieved from http://bit.ly/2b87Mmg

August 8, 2016

Fact of the Week: Median Annual Wages for Full-Time Workers Fall Short of the Income Needed to Afford a Modest One-Bedroom Apartment

Source: La Jeunesse, E. (2016). Many Full-Time Workers Face Housing Affordability Problems. Boston, MA: Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. Retrieved from http://bit.ly/2aHf3vY

August 1, 2016

Fact of the Week: The Shrinking Public Housing Stock (1996-2015)

Source: A Picture of Subsidized Households (HUD)

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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 Federal Government Pays Over Three Times More in Housing Supports for Homeowners than for Low-Income Renters

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

Fact of the Week: Projected Mortgage Interest Deduction (MID) Tax Expenditure vs. HUD Budget (2015-2021)

Fact of the Week: Median Net Worth of Households by Race/Ethnicity (1983-2013)

Fact of the Week: Median Annual Wages for Full-Time Workers Fall Short of the Income Needed to Afford a Modest One-Bedroom Apartment

Fact of the Week: The Shrinking Public Housing Stock (1996-2015)