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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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Reasons Why Movers and Almost-Movers Struggled to Find Different Rental Housing

Source: NLIHC 2025 National Renter Survey report, available at https://nlihc.org/national-renter-survey

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NLIHC’s National Renter Survey Finds Over a Third of Renters Charged Convenience Fees for Certain Rental Payment Methods

Source: NLIHC 2025 National Renter Survey Report 

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Federal Government Typically Spends At Least 12 Times More Money on Defense Than on Housing

Source: The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Historical Tables: 4.1 (Outlays by Agency 1962-2031), 5.4 (Discretionary Budget Authority by Agency 1976-2031), and 10.1 (Gross…

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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Facts of the Week

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

Reasons Why Movers and Almost-Movers Struggled to Find Different Rental Housing

NLIHC’s National Renter Survey Finds Over a Third of Renters Charged Convenience Fees for Certain Rental Payment Methods

Federal Government Typically Spends At Least 12 Times More Money on Defense Than on Housing

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.