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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…

April 5, 2021

Children in Low-Income Households More Likely than Those in High-Income Households to Have Disabilities

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Childhood Disability in the United States: 2019.

March 29, 2021

Households of Color Much More Likely than White Households to Be Extremely Low-Income Renters

Source: NLIHC, 2021. The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes.

March 22, 2021

Only 37 Affordable Rental Homes are Available for Every 100 Extremely Low-Income Renter Households

Source: NLIHC, 2021. The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes.

March 15, 2021

Urban Institute Finds American Rescue Plan Act Will Significantly Reduce Poverty among Black and Latino Households

Source: Urban Institute, 2021. “2021 Poverty Projections: Assessing Four American Rescue Plan Policies.” Projections of 2021 Supplemental Poverty Measure poverty rates, considering effect of expanded unemployment insurance benefits, SNAP benefits, child tax credit, and stimulus checks.

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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

Children in Low-Income Households More Likely than Those in High-Income Households to Have Disabilities

Households of Color Much More Likely than White Households to Be Extremely Low-Income Renters

Only 37 Affordable Rental Homes are Available for Every 100 Extremely Low-Income Renter Households

Urban Institute Finds American Rescue Plan Act Will Significantly Reduce Poverty among Black and Latino Households