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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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Reasons Why Movers and Almost-Movers Struggled to Find Different Rental Housing

Source: NLIHC 2025 National Renter Survey report, available at https://nlihc.org/national-renter-survey

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NLIHC’s National Renter Survey Finds Over a Third of Renters Charged Convenience Fees for Certain Rental Payment Methods

Source: NLIHC 2025 National Renter Survey Report 

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Federal Government Typically Spends At Least 12 Times More Money on Defense Than on Housing

Source: The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Historical Tables: 4.1 (Outlays by Agency 1962-2031), 5.4 (Discretionary Budget Authority by Agency 1976-2031), and 10.1 (Gross…

April 13, 2026

Efforts to Criminalize Homelessness Negatively Impact Service Providers’ Clients

Source: National Alliance to End Homelessness, Pulse Check Survey (2026). https://endhomelessness.org/resources/research-and-analysis/pulse-check-surveying-the-field-in-uncertain-times

April 6, 2026

Renters with Extremely Low Incomes are Much More Likely than Other Renters to be Severely Housing Cost-Burdened

Source: 2024 ACS PUMS.

March 30, 2026

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 labor force, enrolled in school, single adult caregiver of a child under 7 or of a household member with…

March 23, 2026

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

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Facts of the Week

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

Reasons Why Movers and Almost-Movers Struggled to Find Different Rental Housing

NLIHC’s National Renter Survey Finds Over a Third of Renters Charged Convenience Fees for Certain Rental Payment Methods

Federal Government Typically Spends At Least 12 Times More Money on Defense Than on Housing

Efforts to Criminalize Homelessness Negatively Impact Service Providers’ Clients

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