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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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Decline in Homelessness Between 2024 and 2025 Driven by Decrease in Major Cities

Note: Persons experiencing homelessness include those living in emergency shelters, transition housing, safe havens, and locations not meant for human habitation. Source:…

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Renter Households that Include a Person with a Disability Experience Higher Rates of Housing Quality Issues Compared to Non-Disability Renter Households

Note: Disability households have at least one member with a disability. Source: Trivedi, K. & Brucker, D. L. (2026). Federal rental assistance and housing outcomes…

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The Majority of People Who Could Lose Housing Assistance Under HUD’s Proposed Work Requirements and Time Limits are in Working Households

Note: Working households mean households with at least one member reporting wage income. Source: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, “Nearly 3.7 Million People at…

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

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Facts of the Week

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

Decline in Homelessness Between 2024 and 2025 Driven by Decrease in Major Cities

Renter Households that Include a Person with a Disability Experience Higher Rates of Housing Quality Issues Compared to Non-Disability Renter Households

The Majority of People Who Could Lose Housing Assistance Under HUD’s Proposed Work Requirements and Time Limits are in Working Households

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)

Fact of the Week: Mortgage Interest Deduction Skewed Heavily toward Most Affluent

Fact of the Week: Severely Cost-Burdened Renter Households by Income Group