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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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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.

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Single-Parent Female Renter—Particularly Black, Latina, and Indigenous Women—are More Likely than Single-Parent Male Renters to Have Extremely Low Incomes

Note: AANHPI stands for women who identified as Asian American, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander. Indigenous stands for women who identified as American Indian…

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Affordable and Available Rental Homes per 100 extremely Low-Income Renter Households

Source: NLIHC Tabulations, American Community Survey (ACS) 2023 1-Year, Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS).

February 3, 2025

More Than 16 Million Individuals with Extremely Low Incomes Are At Risk of Housing Instability

Note: Households are severely cost burdened if they spend more than half of their incomes on housing expenses. Individuals' characteristics of participating in the labor force, having a disability, or being an older adult 62+ years of age may overlapSource: U.S.…

January 27, 2025

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Facts of the Week

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

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

Single-Parent Female Renter—Particularly Black, Latina, and Indigenous Women—are More Likely than Single-Parent Male Renters to Have Extremely Low Incomes

Affordable and Available Rental Homes per 100 extremely Low-Income Renter Households

More Than 16 Million Individuals with Extremely Low Incomes Are At Risk of Housing Instability

Extremely Low-Income Renters Make Up the Majority of Severely Cost-Burdened Renters

Veteran Homelessness Continues to Decline over the Long Term

Number of People Experiencing Homelessness Reaches Highest Level since Data Collection Began in 2007