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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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Sixty-Three Percent of Extremely Low-Income Renters in Puerto Rico Spend Over Half of their Income on Housing

Source: The Gap: Assessing the Affordability and Availability of Rental Housing in Puerto Rico. Data from 2023 PRCS PUMS.

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Extremely Low-Income Renters in Puerto Rico Are More Likely to be Seniors, Householders with Disabilities, Householders in School, or Single Adult Caregivers than Other Renters

Source: 2023 PRCS PUMS Note: Mutually exclusive categories are applied in the following order: senior, disabled, in the labor force, enrolled in school, single-adult caregiver…

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In Puerto Rico, Dominicans are More Likely than Other Ethnic Groups to be Extremely Low-Income Renters

Source: 2023 PRCS PUMS.

January 9, 2023

Predominantly Rural and Suburban Continuums of Care Faced Largest Increases in Sheltered People Experiencing Chronic Homelessness between 2021 and 2022

Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, “The 2022 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report Part 1: Point-In-Time Estimates of Homelessness,” December 2022

December 19, 2022

Affordable Housing Bond Measures Were Passed Nationwide in 2022 Elections

Source: National Low Income Housing Coalition, “Voters Choose Housing: A Summary of Housing and Homelessness Ballot Measures in the November 2022 Elections,” https://bit.ly/3j9FWxx. Note: Santa Monica Community College District’s $375M bond will fund a variety of infrastructure…

December 5, 2022

Many Tribally Designated Housing Entities Spent Higher Proportion of Initial Emergency Rental Assistance Allocation Than Respective States, Partly Due to Disproportionate Allocations

Source: NLIHC, “Serving Native American Households Using ERA: Learning from High-Spending Programs,” http://bit.ly/3VAxIMM Note: Many smaller states received disproportionately high funding due to the ERA allocation formula. State grantees depicted here eventually reallocated more than 60% of…

November 21, 2022

Wage Disparities Disproportionately Impact Black and Hispanic Women

Source: Housing wages based on HUD Fair Market Rents. Hourly wages by percentile from Economic Policy Institute State of Working America Data Library 2021, adjusted to 2022 dollars.

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Facts of the Week

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

Sixty-Three Percent of Extremely Low-Income Renters in Puerto Rico Spend Over Half of their Income on Housing

Extremely Low-Income Renters in Puerto Rico Are More Likely to be Seniors, Householders with Disabilities, Householders in School, or Single Adult Caregivers than Other Renters

In Puerto Rico, Dominicans are More Likely than Other Ethnic Groups to be Extremely Low-Income Renters

Predominantly Rural and Suburban Continuums of Care Faced Largest Increases in Sheltered People Experiencing Chronic Homelessness between 2021 and 2022

Affordable Housing Bond Measures Were Passed Nationwide in 2022 Elections

Many Tribally Designated Housing Entities Spent Higher Proportion of Initial Emergency Rental Assistance Allocation Than Respective States, Partly Due to Disproportionate Allocations

Wage Disparities Disproportionately Impact Black and Hispanic Women