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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…

April 12, 2021

Overwhelming Majority of Severely Housing Cost-Burdened Renters Have Extremely Low Incomes

Source: NLIHC, 2021. The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes.

April 5, 2021

Children in Low-Income Households More Likely than Those in High-Income Households to Have Disabilities

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Childhood Disability in the United States: 2019.

March 29, 2021

Households of Color Much More Likely than White Households to Be Extremely Low-Income Renters

Source: NLIHC, 2021. The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes.

March 22, 2021

Only 37 Affordable Rental Homes are Available for Every 100 Extremely Low-Income Renter Households

Source: NLIHC, 2021. The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes.

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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

Overwhelming Majority of Severely Housing Cost-Burdened Renters Have Extremely Low Incomes

Children in Low-Income Households More Likely than Those in High-Income Households to Have Disabilities

Households of Color Much More Likely than White Households to Be Extremely Low-Income Renters

Only 37 Affordable Rental Homes are Available for Every 100 Extremely Low-Income Renter Households