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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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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…

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Affordable and Available Rental Homes per 100 extremely Low-Income Renter Households

Source: NLIHC Tabulations, American Community Survey (ACS) 2023 1-Year, Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS).

August 11, 2025

Estimated Number of People Impacted by Insufficient Funding for Housing Voucher Program Based on Current House and Senate Appropriations Bills, by Demographic Category 

Note: Estimates for children, older adults, and people with disabilities are not mutually exclusive. Older adults include individuals aged 62 or older.  Source: Acosta, S. (July 31, 2025). House Bill Would Leave Over 400,000 More People Without Stable,…

August 4, 2025

Median Wages for Many Common Jobs Fall Short of Housing Wages

Note: Occupational wages from May 2024 BLS Occupational and Employment Wage Statistics, adjusted to 2025 dollars. The BLS national statistics excluded Colorado in 2024 due to data quality issues. Source: NLIHC Out of Reach 2025

July 28, 2025

More Than Half of Wage Earners Earn Less Than the One-Bedroom Housing Wage

Source: NLIHC Out of Reach 2025 Note: Housing wages based on HUD Fair Market Rents. The hourly wages by percentile are drawn from the Economic Policy Institute State of Working America Data Library 2024, adjusted to 2025 dollars.

July 21, 2025

In 18 States, Renters Must Earn More Than $30 an Hour to Afford a Two-Bedroom Apartment at Fair Market Rent

Source: NLIHC Out of Reach 2025 Note: This map displays the hourly wages that a full-time worker must earn (working 40 hours per week, 52 weeks per years) in every state, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico in order to afford Fair Market Rent for a two-…

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Facts of the Week

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

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

Affordable and Available Rental Homes per 100 extremely Low-Income Renter Households

Estimated Number of People Impacted by Insufficient Funding for Housing Voucher Program Based on Current House and Senate Appropriations Bills, by Demographic Category

Median Wages for Many Common Jobs Fall Short of Housing Wages

More Than Half of Wage Earners Earn Less Than the One-Bedroom Housing Wage

In 18 States, Renters Must Earn More Than $30 an Hour to Afford a Two-Bedroom Apartment at Fair Market Rent