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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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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…

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Older Adults Account for Nearly One-Fifth of the Nation’s Population Experiencing Homelessness

Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (2024), AHAR Part 1: Point-in-Time Estimates of Homelessness in the U.S.

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Single-Parent Female Renter—Particularly Black, Latina, and Indigenous Women—are More Likely than Single-Parent Male Renters to Have Extremely Low Incomes

Note: AANHPI stands for women who identified as Asian American, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander. Indigenous stands for women who identified as American Indian…

September 23, 2024

Housing Assistance Raised 2.8 Million People from Poverty in 2023

Source: U.S. Census Bureau. Poverty in the United States: 2023. https://bit.ly/4e7S5KP Note: Refundable tax credits include the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and refundable portion of the Child Tax Credit (CTC). SNAP = Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; SSI = Supplemental Security…

September 9, 2024

Women – Particularly Black and Latina Women – Earn Less Than Their Male Counterparts and Face More Difficulties Affording Rental Housing

Note: Housing wages based on HUD Fair Market Rents. The hourly wages by percentile are drawn from Economic Policy Institute State of Working America Data Library 2023, adjusted to 2024 dollars. Source: National Low Income Housing Coalition. Out of Reach 2024. Available at: www.nlihc.org/oor

August 19, 2024

More Than 25% of Lowest-Income Renter Households Could Not Afford Food during First Half of 2024

Note: Includes only households who reported they did not have enough to eat because they could not afford to buy food. Source: Based on Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University tabulations of US Census Bureau, Household Pulse Surveys, Phase 4.0 and 4.1, Cycles 1-6, January 9-June…

August 12, 2024

Black and Latino Workers Face Larger Gaps between Wages and Cost of Rental Housing Than White Workers

Source: National Low Income Housing Coalition. Out of Reach 2024. Available at: www.nlihc.org/oor

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Facts of the Week

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

Children Accounted for Nearly 40% of the 7.6 Million Individuals Evicted From 2007 to 2016

Older Adults Account for Nearly One-Fifth of the Nation’s Population Experiencing Homelessness

Single-Parent Female Renter—Particularly Black, Latina, and Indigenous Women—are More Likely than Single-Parent Male Renters to Have Extremely Low Incomes

Housing Assistance Raised 2.8 Million People from Poverty in 2023

Women – Particularly Black and Latina Women – Earn Less Than Their Male Counterparts and Face More Difficulties Affording Rental Housing

More Than 25% of Lowest-Income Renter Households Could Not Afford Food during First Half of 2024

Black and Latino Workers Face Larger Gaps between Wages and Cost of Rental Housing Than White Workers