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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…

April 20, 2020

Low-Income Households without Bank Accounts Will Wait Longer for COVID-19 Stimulus Checks

Source: FDIC Survey of Unbanked and Underbanked Households, 2017.

April 13, 2020

Hispanic and Native Renters Most Suffer Overcrowded Housing; Native Renters Most Suffer Incomplete Facilities, April 13

Source: American Community Survey PUMS, 2018. Households are overcrowded if more than one person per room lives in the home.

April 6, 2020

Over 7.7 Million Lowest-Income Households are Severely Housing Cost-Burdened, Spending More Than Half of Their Incomes on Housing

Source: NLIHC’s The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes; NLIHC tabulations of 2018 ACS PUMS data.

March 30, 2020

Half of Households with Incomes Below Poverty Level Are Not Confident They Could Handle $400 Expense

Source: Urban Institute Well-Being and Basic Needs Survey, December 2017

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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

Low-Income Households without Bank Accounts Will Wait Longer for COVID-19 Stimulus Checks

Hispanic and Native Renters Most Suffer Overcrowded Housing; Native Renters Most Suffer Incomplete Facilities, April 13

Over 7.7 Million Lowest-Income Households are Severely Housing Cost-Burdened, Spending More Than Half of Their Incomes on Housing

Half of Households with Incomes Below Poverty Level Are Not Confident They Could Handle $400 Expense