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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 9, 2021

Fact of the Week: Nine in Ten Renter Households are in Counties with High or Substantial Rates of COVID-19 Transmission

Source: CDC COVID Data Tracker and 2015-2019 American Community Survey.

August 2, 2021

Housing Choice Voucher Recipients in Ten States Wait More than Three Years for Assistance

Source: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, “Families Wait Years for Housing Vouchers Due to Inadequate Funding,” 2021.

July 26, 2021

Jurisdictions Spent $1.5 Billion in Emergency Rental Assistance Funds in June, Much Remains Unspent

Source: Emergency Rental Assistance Program Monthly Compliance Report, June 1-30, 2021.

July 19, 2021

More than Half of the Most Common Occupations in U.S. Pay Less than the National Housing Wage

Source: NLIHC, Out of Reach 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

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: Nine in Ten Renter Households are in Counties with High or Substantial Rates of COVID-19 Transmission

Housing Choice Voucher Recipients in Ten States Wait More than Three Years for Assistance

Jurisdictions Spent $1.5 Billion in Emergency Rental Assistance Funds in June, Much Remains Unspent

More than Half of the Most Common Occupations in U.S. Pay Less than the National Housing Wage