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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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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-…

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

Source: 2024 ACS PUMS.

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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…

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.

July 12, 2021

More than Half of Renters Behind on Rent to Small-Scale Landlords are Unaware of Emergency Rental Assistance Programs

Source: Urban Institute, “With Just a Month Left of the Eviction Moratorium, Many Mom-and-Pop Landlords and Tenants Are Still Unaware of Federal Rental Assistance,” 2021. Survey conducted in May 2021.

July 6, 2021

More than Half of All Federally Assisted Homes in Some Midwestern States Are at High Risk of Negative Impacts from Natural Hazards

Source: The Public and Affordable Housing Research Corporation (PAHRC) & the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC), Taking Stock: Natural Hazards and Federally Assisted Housing, 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

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

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

More than Half of Renters Behind on Rent to Small-Scale Landlords are Unaware of Emergency Rental Assistance Programs

More than Half of All Federally Assisted Homes in Some Midwestern States Are at High Risk of Negative Impacts from Natural Hazards