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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…

June 28, 2021

Three Fourths of ERA Programs Taking Steps to Reach Underserved Groups Partner with Trusted Community Organizations

Source: Housing Initiative at Penn, NYU Furman Center, & NLIHC, “Treasury Emergency Rental Assistance Programs in 2021: Analysis of a National Survey,” June 2021.

June 21, 2021

Fact of the Week: Renters in Northeast, Midwest More Likely to Live in Homes Built before 1970

Source: Joint Center for Housing Studies, The State of the Nation’s Housing 2021.

June 14, 2021

Research Debunks Stereotype that People Cross State Lines for Homeless Services

Source: Meyer et al. (2021), “Learning about Homelessness Using Linked Survey and Administrative Data.”

June 7, 2021

Immigration Concerns Prevent More than 1 in 10 Adults in Low-Income Immigrant Families with Nonpermanent Residents from Accessing Emergency Rental Assistance

Source: Urban Institute, Well-Being and Basic Needs Survey, December 2020.

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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

Three Fourths of ERA Programs Taking Steps to Reach Underserved Groups Partner with Trusted Community Organizations

Fact of the Week: Renters in Northeast, Midwest More Likely to Live in Homes Built before 1970

Research Debunks Stereotype that People Cross State Lines for Homeless Services

Immigration Concerns Prevent More than 1 in 10 Adults in Low-Income Immigrant Families with Nonpermanent Residents from Accessing Emergency Rental Assistance