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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 19, 2021

Only a Third of Those Leaving Temporary COVID Placements in Hotels Obtain Permanent Housing

Source: National Alliance to End Homelessness, “Surveying Local Homeless Service Providers (Part 3): Responses from November 2020,” December 2020.

January 11, 2021

Black and Latino Renters More Likely than White Renters to Be Several Months Behind on Rent

Source: Urban Institute Coronavirus Tracking Survey, Wave 2, September 2020.

December 22, 2020

Share of Renters Reporting Rent Arrears Up Significantly since Summer

Source: US Census Bureau, Household Pulse Survey, Week 13 (August 19-31) through Week 20 (November 25-December 7).

December 14, 2020

Fewer than 1 in 10 Occupied Rental Homes are Affordable to Households Earning Less than $20,000

Source: Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year 2015-2019.

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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

Only a Third of Those Leaving Temporary COVID Placements in Hotels Obtain Permanent Housing

Black and Latino Renters More Likely than White Renters to Be Several Months Behind on Rent

Share of Renters Reporting Rent Arrears Up Significantly since Summer

Fewer than 1 in 10 Occupied Rental Homes are Affordable to Households Earning Less than $20,000