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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.

September 19, 2016

Fact of the Week: Renters Vote Far Less Often than Homeowners

September 12, 2016

Fact of the Week: U.S. Housing Cost Burdens for the Poor Compared to Other Advanced Nations

Source: Carliner, M., Marya, E. (2016). Rental housing: An international comparison. Cambridge, MA: Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University.

September 6, 2016

Fact of the Week: Extremely Low Income Households Occupy Higher-Priced Rentals

Note: AMI = Area Median Income Source: NLIHC tabulations of 2014 ACS PUMS data.

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.

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Facts of the Week

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: Renters Vote Far Less Often than Homeowners

Fact of the Week: U.S. Housing Cost Burdens for the Poor Compared to Other Advanced Nations

Fact of the Week: Extremely Low Income Households Occupy Higher-Priced Rentals

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