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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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Severe Housing Cost Burdens are Common and Widespread for the Lowest-Income Renters but Not for Higher-Income Renters

Note: A household has “severe cost burden” when it spends more than 50% of its income on rent and utilities. Source: 2024 ACS PUMS.

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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.

October 22, 2018

Fact of the Week: Nearly Half a Million Low Income Housing Tax Credit Homes Will Lose Their Affordability Restrictions from 2020 to 2029

Source: NLIHC and PAHRC, 2018

October 15, 2018

Fact of the Week: Support for Mortgage Deduction Declines When People Understand It Is Inequitable, Costly, and Ineffective at Creating New Homeowners

Source: Brian J. McCabe (2018): “Costly, Regressive, and Ineffective: How Sensitive is Public Support for the Mortgage Interest Deduction in the United States?,” Housing Policy Debate, DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2018.1494025.

October 9, 2018

Fact of the Week: Higher Rates of Poorest Households Have Insufficient “Residual Income” for their Housing than Are “Housing Cost-Burdened” by Standard Measure

October 1, 2018

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Facts of the Week

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

Severe Housing Cost Burdens are Common and Widespread for the Lowest-Income Renters but Not for Higher-Income Renters

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

Fact of the Week: Nearly Half a Million Low Income Housing Tax Credit Homes Will Lose Their Affordability Restrictions from 2020 to 2029

Fact of the Week: Support for Mortgage Deduction Declines When People Understand It Is Inequitable, Costly, and Ineffective at Creating New Homeowners

Fact of the Week: Higher Rates of Poorest Households Have Insufficient “Residual Income” for their Housing than Are “Housing Cost-Burdened” by Standard Measure

Fact of the Week: Households Living in Poverty Have Significantly Less Access to a Vehicle for Disaster Evacuation