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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…

October 5, 2020

One-Third of Lower-Income Households Have Had Trouble Making Housing Payments during the Pandemic

Source: Pew Research Center, “Economic Fallout from COVID-19 Continues to Hit Lower-Income Americans the Hardest,” 2020.

September 28, 2020

Some Evictions Continue Despite Federal Eviction Moratorium

Source: Eviction Lab, Eviction Tracking System.

September 21, 2020

Housing Assistance Lifted 2.6 Million People Out of Poverty in 2019

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, “The Supplemental Poverty Measure: 2019.”

September 14, 2020

Renters of Color More Likely than White Renters to be Behind on Rent in August

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Housing Pulse Survey, Phase 2, August 19-31.

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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

One-Third of Lower-Income Households Have Had Trouble Making Housing Payments during the Pandemic

Some Evictions Continue Despite Federal Eviction Moratorium

Housing Assistance Lifted 2.6 Million People Out of Poverty in 2019

Renters of Color More Likely than White Renters to be Behind on Rent in August