Cost Burden = households spending more than 30% of their income on housing. Severely Cost Burden = households spending more than 50% of their income on housing.
Source: NLIHC’s The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes, 2018 at: http://nlihc.org/gap
Source: EPI analysis of Current Population Survey Outgoing
Rotation Group microdata. See: http://bit.ly/2DbzITd
Extremely low income households have incomes at or below the poverty level or 30% of their area median income.
Source: NLIHC tabulation of 2016 ACS PUMS.
“Housing cost burden” defined as spending more than 30% of household income on rent and utilities.
Source: Prosperity Now. (2018). 2018 Scorecard. Washington, DC: Author