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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 1, 2021

Black and Latino Renters More Likely to Carry Rent Debt during Pandemic

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Household Pulse Survey.

May 24, 2021

Those Laid Off in 2020 Were Already Less Likely to be Financially Stable before Pandemic

Source: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, “Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households in 2020.”

May 17, 2021

Only 23% of Emergency Rental Assistance Programs Currently Provide Direct-to-Tenant Assistance

Source: NLIHC Treasury Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) Dashboard: https://nlihc.org/era-dashboard

May 10, 2021

Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) Units Use an Array of Federal Rental Assistance Programs

Source: HUD 2018 LIHTC Tenant Data

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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

Black and Latino Renters More Likely to Carry Rent Debt during Pandemic

Those Laid Off in 2020 Were Already Less Likely to be Financially Stable before Pandemic

Only 23% of Emergency Rental Assistance Programs Currently Provide Direct-to-Tenant Assistance

Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) Units Use an Array of Federal Rental Assistance Programs