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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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Two Million Children in Families at Risk of Housing Instability under Administration’s Proposed Rental Assistance Time Limits: One-Third Reside in Six States

Note: Counts include households receiving Housing Choice Vouchers, Project-Based Rental Assistance, and Public Housing that do not include a senior or person with a…

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Even Average Renter Wages Are Unable to Afford a Modest One Bedroom Rental Home

Source: NLIHC Out of Reach 2025

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Estimated Number of People Impacted by Insufficient Funding for Housing Voucher Program Based on Current House and Senate Appropriations Bills, by Demographic Category 

Note: Estimates for children, older adults, and people with disabilities are not mutually exclusive. Older adults include individuals aged 62 or older.  Source…

January 10, 2022

Hispanic Voucher Holders Least Likely to Live in Integrated Neighborhoods

Source: McClure, K. & Schwartz, A. (2021). Movement toward high opportunity and racial and ethnic integration for Hispanics in the housing choice voucher program. Cityscape, 23(3), 137-159. https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscpe/vol23num3/ch5.pdf

December 20, 2021

Treasury ERA Programs with Flexibility Features Spent More of their Allocations than Programs without Flexibility Features

Source: NLIHC & Housing Initiative at Penn. (2021). July survey of ERA1 program administrators. Treasury Emergency Rental Assistance Programs in 2021: Preliminary Analysis of Program Features and Spending Performance.

December 13, 2021

ERA2 Spending Accelerated, ERA1 Spending Dropped in October

Source: Emergency Rental Assistance Program Monthly Compliance Report: October 1-31, 2021, U.S. Department of the Treasury Note: ERA2 spending data for April through June are reported under June

December 6, 2021

Forty-Eight States Have Enacted Laws Criminalizing Homelessness

Source: National Homelessness Law Center, "Housing Not Handcuffs 2021: State Law Supplement," November 2021

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Facts of the Week

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

Two Million Children in Families at Risk of Housing Instability under Administration’s Proposed Rental Assistance Time Limits: One-Third Reside in Six States

Even Average Renter Wages Are Unable to Afford a Modest One Bedroom Rental Home

Estimated Number of People Impacted by Insufficient Funding for Housing Voucher Program Based on Current House and Senate Appropriations Bills, by Demographic Category

Hispanic Voucher Holders Least Likely to Live in Integrated Neighborhoods

Treasury ERA Programs with Flexibility Features Spent More of their Allocations than Programs without Flexibility Features

ERA2 Spending Accelerated, ERA1 Spending Dropped in October

Forty-Eight States Have Enacted Laws Criminalizing Homelessness