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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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Severe Housing Cost Burdens are Common and Widespread for the Lowest-Income Renters but Not for Higher-Income Renters

Note: A household has “severe cost burden” when it spends more than 50% of its income on rent and utilities. Source: 2024 ACS PUMS.

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Efforts to Criminalize Homelessness Negatively Impact Service Providers’ Clients

Source: National Alliance to End Homelessness, Pulse Check Survey (2026). https://endhomelessness.org/resources/research-and-analysis/pulse-check-surveying-the-field-in-uncertain-…

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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.

November 14, 2016

Fact of the Week: Poverty Growth Higher in Republican vs. Democratic Congressional Districts

Source: Kneebone, E. (2016) Poverty Crosses Party Lines. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution. Retrieved from https://www.brookings.edu/research/poverty-crosses-party-lines/#AL.

November 7, 2016

Fact of the Week: U.S. Citizens Who Reported Voting in November Elections by Household Income (2006-2014)

Source: November 2006-2014 Current Population Survey Data

October 31, 2016

Fact of the Week: Average Per-Family Monthly Costs by Homelessness Intervention in the Family Options Study

Source: Gubits et al. 2016. Family Options Study: 3-year Impacts of Housing and Services Interventions for Homeless Families. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

October 24, 2016

Fact of the Week: Mortgage Interest Deduction Benefits Highest Income Households Disproportionately

Source: Tax Policy Center, 2015

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

Severe Housing Cost Burdens are Common and Widespread for the Lowest-Income Renters but Not for Higher-Income Renters

Efforts to Criminalize Homelessness Negatively Impact Service Providers’ Clients

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

Fact of the Week: Poverty Growth Higher in Republican vs. Democratic Congressional Districts

Fact of the Week: U.S. Citizens Who Reported Voting in November Elections by Household Income (2006-2014)

Fact of the Week: Average Per-Family Monthly Costs by Homelessness Intervention in the Family Options Study

Fact of the Week: Mortgage Interest Deduction Benefits Highest Income Households Disproportionately