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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…

September 21, 2015

Fact of the Week: Poverty Rates by Age and Sex: 2014

Source: DeNavas-Walt, Carmen and Bernadette D. Proctor. (2015). Income and Poverty in the United States: 2014. Washington, DC: U.S. Census Bureau.

September 14, 2015

Fact of the Week: Wage Declines for the 10 Largest, Low Wage Occupations, 2009 to 2014

Source: National Employment Law Project. (2015). Occupational Wage Declines Since the Great Recession: Low-Wage Occupations See Largest Real Wage Declines. Retrieved from http://bit.ly/1ie9dmb.

September 8, 2015

Fact of the Week: Factors Associated with High Rates of Child Poverty in Rural Counties

From Understanding the Geography of Growth in Rural Child Poverty is available at http://1.usa.gov/1K5pZ0W.

August 17, 2015

Fact of the Week: Percent of Poor Living in High-Poverty Neighborhoods on the Rise

Note: A high-poverty neighborhood is defined as a census tract with a poverty rate of at least 40%. Source: Jargowsky, P. (2015). Architecture of Segregation: Civil Unrest, the Concentration of Poverty, and Public Policy. New York City, NY: The Century Foundation. Retrieved from: http://apps.tcf…

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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: Poverty Rates by Age and Sex: 2014

Fact of the Week: Wage Declines for the 10 Largest, Low Wage Occupations, 2009 to 2014

Fact of the Week: Factors Associated with High Rates of Child Poverty in Rural Counties

Fact of the Week: Percent of Poor Living in High-Poverty Neighborhoods on the Rise