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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.

August 29, 2022

Fact of the Week: Frequency of Major Weather and Climate Events Has Increased Significantly in Last Four Decades

Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), “U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disaster,” 2022, www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions

August 15, 2022

Final Monthly Spending Report Shows Nearly $30 Billion in Emergency Rental Assistance Has Been Distributed to Households

Source: U.S. Department of the Treasury, “June 2022 ERA Monthly Data,” https://bit.ly/3bIGLd9.  Note: Spending numbers include funds spent toward forward rent, arrears, and utilities. Additional funds that have gone toward administrative expenses and housing stability services are not…

August 8, 2022

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

Source: Occupational wages from May 2021 Occupational Employment Statistics, BLS, adjusted to 2022 dollars. Housing wages based on HUD fair market rents.

August 1, 2022

Renters in Different Circumstances Struggle to Afford One- and Two-Bedroom Apartments at the Fair Market Rent

Source: NLIHC calculation of weighted-average HUD Fair Market Rent. Affordable rents based on income and benefits data from BLS QCEW, 2020 adjusted to 2022 dollars; U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, March 2022; and Social Security Administration, 2022 maximum…

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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

Fact of the Week: Frequency of Major Weather and Climate Events Has Increased Significantly in Last Four Decades

Final Monthly Spending Report Shows Nearly $30 Billion in Emergency Rental Assistance Has Been Distributed to Households

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

Renters in Different Circumstances Struggle to Afford One- and Two-Bedroom Apartments at the Fair Market Rent