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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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Decline in Homelessness Between 2024 and 2025 Driven by Decrease in Major Cities

Note: Persons experiencing homelessness include those living in emergency shelters, transition housing, safe havens, and locations not meant for human habitation. Source:…

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Renter Households that Include a Person with a Disability Experience Higher Rates of Housing Quality Issues Compared to Non-Disability Renter Households

Note: Disability households have at least one member with a disability. Source: Trivedi, K. & Brucker, D. L. (2026). Federal rental assistance and housing outcomes…

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The Majority of People Who Could Lose Housing Assistance Under HUD’s Proposed Work Requirements and Time Limits are in Working Households

Note: Working households mean households with at least one member reporting wage income. Source: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, “Nearly 3.7 Million People at…

May 10, 2019

Fact of the Week: Expansion of Housing Vouchers Would Have Greatest Impact on Reducing Child Poverty Among Eight Possible Interventions

The proposals’ combined impact is a 57.1% reduction in the supplemental child poverty rate, less than the sum of the individual policy changes because the same child can benefit from more than one policy improvement. Source: Children’s Defense Fund. (2019). Ending Child Poverty Now.…

April 29, 2019

Fact of the Week: African Americans Account for 13% of U.S. Population but 40% of Homeless Population

Source: National Alliance to End Homelessness. (2019). The State of Homelessness in America.

April 22, 2019

Fact of the Week: Significantly Higher Percentages of Native Americans, Blacks, and Hispanics Have Extremely Low-Incomes Than Do Whites

April 15, 2019

Fact of the Week: Racial and Ethnic Minorities Make Up Majority of Extremely Low-Income Severely Housing Cost-Burdened Renters

Source: NLIHC tabulations of 2017 ACS PUMS data. NLIHC’s The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes Extremely Low-Income (ELI): At or below the poverty line or 30% of area median income (AMI); Very Low-Income: ELI to 50% AMI; Low-Income: 51%-80% AMI; Middle-Income: 81% to 100% AMI; Above…

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Facts of the Week

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

Decline in Homelessness Between 2024 and 2025 Driven by Decrease in Major Cities

Renter Households that Include a Person with a Disability Experience Higher Rates of Housing Quality Issues Compared to Non-Disability Renter Households

The Majority of People Who Could Lose Housing Assistance Under HUD’s Proposed Work Requirements and Time Limits are in Working Households

Fact of the Week: Expansion of Housing Vouchers Would Have Greatest Impact on Reducing Child Poverty Among Eight Possible Interventions

Fact of the Week: African Americans Account for 13% of U.S. Population but 40% of Homeless Population

Fact of the Week: Significantly Higher Percentages of Native Americans, Blacks, and Hispanics Have Extremely Low-Incomes Than Do Whites

Fact of the Week: Racial and Ethnic Minorities Make Up Majority of Extremely Low-Income Severely Housing Cost-Burdened Renters