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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…

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

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

September 24, 2018

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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: 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

Fact of the Week: High Percentage of Severely Housing Cost-Burdened Extremely Low Income Renter Households throughout the U.S.