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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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Renters with Extremely Low Incomes are Much More Likely than Other Renters to be Severely Housing Cost-Burdened

Source: 2024 ACS PUMS.

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Extremely Low-Income Renters are More Likely to be Seniors, Householders with Disabilities, Households in School, or Single Adult Caregivers

Source: The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes, NLIHC 2026. https://nlihc.org/gap  Note: Mutually exclusive categories applied in the following order: senior, disabled, in…

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Extremely Low-Income Renters Represent a Quarter of All Renters, But Are More Than Two Thirds of All Renters with Severe Housing Cost Burdens

Source: The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes, NLIHC 2026. https://nlihc.org/gap

February 2, 2026

Nearly Half of Surveyed State and Local Housing Trust Funds Prioritize Extremely Low-Income Renters

Source: NLIHC. 2025 State and Local Housing Trust Fund Report. Available at: https://nlihc.org/housing-trust-fund-project Note: Percentages do not sum to 100% because housing trust funds can prioritize multiple populations. Not all prioritized populations are included. Based…

January 26, 2026

Households That Include Someone with a Disability Are More Likely to Report Difficulty in Paying Rent

Source: U.S. Census Bureau. 2023 American Housing Survey (AHS). Available at https://tr.ee/jUTAy0.

January 20, 2026

Study Indicates That Family Self-Sufficiency Enrollees Were More Likely to Use Financial and Job Search Services

Note: Data are from a randomized trial of the Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) Program, through which half of 2,556 Housing Choice Voucher recipients were randomly selected for enrollment in the FSS program while half were not enrolled. Both groups received information about financial…

January 12, 2026

Extremely Low-Income Renters in Puerto Rico are More Likely to be Severely Cost-Burdened

Source: 2023 PRCS PUMS.

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Facts of the Week

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

Renters with Extremely Low Incomes are Much More Likely than Other Renters to be Severely Housing Cost-Burdened

Extremely Low-Income Renters are More Likely to be Seniors, Householders with Disabilities, Households in School, or Single Adult Caregivers

Extremely Low-Income Renters Represent a Quarter of All Renters, But Are More Than Two Thirds of All Renters with Severe Housing Cost Burdens

Nearly Half of Surveyed State and Local Housing Trust Funds Prioritize Extremely Low-Income Renters

Households That Include Someone with a Disability Are More Likely to Report Difficulty in Paying Rent

Study Indicates That Family Self-Sufficiency Enrollees Were More Likely to Use Financial and Job Search Services

Extremely Low-Income Renters in Puerto Rico are More Likely to be Severely Cost-Burdened