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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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Nearly Half of All Federally Assisted Affordable Homes Exposed to Seven or More Extreme Heat Events are Located in the Southeast and Northeast Regions

Note: Data includes extreme heat alerts between May 1 and October 31 from the National Weather Service. Federally assisted affordable housing includes: public…

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Children Accounted for Nearly 40% of the 7.6 Million Individuals Evicted From 2007 to 2016

Source: Graetz, N., Gershenson, C., Hepburn, P., Porter, S. R., Sandler, D. H., & Desmond, M. (2023). A comprehensive demographic profile of the US evicted population. Proceedings of the National…

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Older Adults Account for Nearly One-Fifth of the Nation’s Population Experiencing Homelessness

Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (2024), AHAR Part 1: Point-in-Time Estimates of Homelessness in the U.S.

August 12, 2019

Fact of the Week: Over 90% of Lowest-Income Households are Seniors, People with Disabilities, Caregivers, or in the Labor Force or School

Source: NLIHC’s The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes, 2019. Data from 2017 ACS PUMS.

August 5, 2019

Fact of the Week: Percent of People Who Think Housing Affordability is a Serious Problem Has Grown Dramatically Throughout the U.S.

Source: NLIHC’s Opportunity Starts at Home Public Opinion Polling on Housing Affordability conducted by Hart Research, March 28, 2019.

July 29, 2019

Fact of the Week: Housing-Insecure Adults Have Lower Rates of Access to Health Care and Greater Rates of Chronic Conditions

Source: Martin, P. et. al. (2019). Adults with Housing Insecurity Have Worse Access to Primary and Preventive Care. Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, 32(4): 521-530.

July 22, 2019

Fact of the Week: Because Black and Latinx Households Are Paid Less than Whites, They Cannot Afford Rents Even at Higher Wage Percentiles

Source: NLIHC’s Out of Reach 2019. Housing wages based on HUD fair market rents. The hourly wages by percentile from the Economic Policy Institute State of Working America Data Library 2018. Adjusted to 2019 dollars.

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Facts of the Week

Metros with Greater Shares of HUD-Assisted Housing Have Lower Rates of Severe Housing Cost Burdens

Nearly Half of All Federally Assisted Affordable Homes Exposed to Seven or More Extreme Heat Events are Located in the Southeast and Northeast Regions

Children Accounted for Nearly 40% of the 7.6 Million Individuals Evicted From 2007 to 2016

Older Adults Account for Nearly One-Fifth of the Nation’s Population Experiencing Homelessness

Fact of the Week: Over 90% of Lowest-Income Households are Seniors, People with Disabilities, Caregivers, or in the Labor Force or School

Fact of the Week: Percent of People Who Think Housing Affordability is a Serious Problem Has Grown Dramatically Throughout the U.S.

Fact of the Week: Housing-Insecure Adults Have Lower Rates of Access to Health Care and Greater Rates of Chronic Conditions

Fact of the Week: Because Black and Latinx Households Are Paid Less than Whites, They Cannot Afford Rents Even at Higher Wage Percentiles