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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

July 24, 2023

Renters Are Less Prepared for Disasters Than Homeowners

Source: Sarah McCarthy & Samantha Friedman (2023): Disaster Preparedness and Housing Tenure: How Do Subsidized Renters Fare?, Housing Policy Debate, DOI:10.1080/10511482.2023.2224309

July 17, 2023

Many of the Largest Occupations Do Not Pay Enough to Afford Rent

Source: NLIHC calculation of weighted-average HUD Fair Market Rent. Occupational wages from May 2022 BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, adjusted to 2023 dollars.

June 26, 2023

Unhoused People Overwhelmingly Indicate Housing Supports Would Help End Their Homelessness

June 12, 2023

Many Renters Cite Financial Constraints as a Reason for Renting

Source: Federal Reserve Board (2023). Economic well-being of households in 2022. Washington, DC: Author. Retrieved from: https://www.federalreserve.gov/consumerscommunities/shed.htm

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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

Renters Are Less Prepared for Disasters Than Homeowners

Many of the Largest Occupations Do Not Pay Enough to Afford Rent

Unhoused People Overwhelmingly Indicate Housing Supports Would Help End Their Homelessness

Many Renters Cite Financial Constraints as a Reason for Renting