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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 13, 2023

Older Black Adults Disproportionately Exit Homelessness to Incarceration, While Older White Adults Disproportionately Receive Permanent Supportive Housing

Source: National Alliance to End Homelessness. (2023). Connecting Older Adults to Housing: Examining Disparities. Retrieved from https://endhomelessness.org/resource/connecting-older-adults-to-housing-examining-disparities/

February 6, 2023

Budget Control Act Severely Constrained Annual HUD Appropriations

Note: Adjusted for inflation. Key HUD programs include Tenant-Based Rental Assistance, Project-Based Rental Assistance, Public Housing Capital and Operating Funds, CDBG, HOME, Section 202, and Section 811. A significant share of the FY23 increase was the result of earmarks for CDBG, which are…

January 30, 2023

Fact of the Week: Renters in Neighborhoods of Color More Likely to Have Rental Arrears and Apply for and Receive ERA Than Applicants in Mostly White Neighborhoods

January 23, 2023

Homeless Students Experience Negative Educational Outcomes

Source: Lowell, W., Hanratty, M. (2023). Who counts? Educational disadvantage among children identified as homeless and implications for the systems that serve them. Retrieved from https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.1086/722003.

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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

Older Black Adults Disproportionately Exit Homelessness to Incarceration, While Older White Adults Disproportionately Receive Permanent Supportive Housing

Budget Control Act Severely Constrained Annual HUD Appropriations

Fact of the Week: Renters in Neighborhoods of Color More Likely to Have Rental Arrears and Apply for and Receive ERA Than Applicants in Mostly White Neighborhoods

Homeless Students Experience Negative Educational Outcomes